441: just now on the stairs

the squirrel from yesterday plunking itself down on the roof overhead so that I felt sure it was coming in for tea jumped from the deck rail to the pine there surely it can fly

440: so many beautiful words

made up so that we can speak to each other get to know why you live there why there is mutiny abroad what is for dinner brevity elasticity gladness synchronicity impulsivity even oh a lot of ity there perhaps I’ve given this too much verbosity how about...

439: it’s my birthday

brothers ring parents call sister laughs down the line taking pleasure in my older this startling brevity of life steps me into the larger room of the world giving a long look at possibility thought gone but really only...

438: who needs glasses to see

I pressed my face against the glass the second line from the bottom please she stated as if I could see the bottom let alone the second from taking a stab I did not want what she pro-offered determined to avoid the inevitable could I treat it like a new pair of shoes...

437: conversational scripture

Yesterday I was 20 today I am 40 tomorrow I’ll be 50 day after that 60 Every age opens up to imagination each decade just trying to figure it out You’d think someone would’ve by now figured then gone on to inform the rest of us so there’d be...