both hands

His name was George for the first few weeks

Little Pigeon Foot

This post was dedicated to all the nice folks who like Waltzes.

Love Hurts When You do it Right

Les Arlequins

-Picasso

When Someone Wants to Leave

"Its a sad situation, I must say, when someone wants to leave as bad as you want them to say."- Dolly Parton

All Delighted People Raise Your Hands

They keep your socks from falling down, you know?

There but for the Grace of God, go I

Today I was faster than a train

Today I was faster than a train,
on my way home I was faster
I had no where to be
but I beat that train

At home she was there
She was there and she was different
Tired, for she was faster than I
The two of us, faster than trains,
Whispered as you slept in some cozy chair
As you slept and dreamt of action and agency

My thoughts spun skeins of wool
Your hair blew back in the sad wind of the fan
I knitted my thoughts with my fingers
Until I had a scarf long enough to cover your neck

We ran off into the night
And I know you didn't wake

Faster than trains we loved and lied
to the night and to ourselves

I stood like a lamppost
and watched and she slipped away,
Clumsy, like smoke

I walked home, not even faster than a snail
You were still asleep
You are always asleep

You aren't supposed to like it

Things

Things my mother and I share a love for:
1. The Hudson's Bay Company
2. Walking in graveyards
3. Brunch
4. Satsuma soap
5. Gerbera daisies
6. Cigarettes
7. Hope chests
8. Hanging laundry on a clothesline
9. Owning too many shoes
10. Clean bookshelves

Things my father and I share a love for:
1. Watching Alastair Sim's A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve
2. Visiting museums in small towns
3. Giving inanimate objects names
4. The blurred lines between truth and fantasy
5. Musicians past their prime
6. Sunday rituals
7. Holding onto things
8. Accepting that we will never be artists
9. Being stubborn
10. Each other

Things my sister and I share a love for:
1. Her children
2. Chai tea
3. Sarah Mclachlan
4. Easter breakfast
5. The nineties
6. Dreams of Scotland
7. Suicide prevention
8. Grimsby Benevolent Fund
9. Grey kittens
10. Red wine

sleep in your own bed

shangri-la

if I must, I will

New friends, new life, new chances
Long nights and slow dances
Warm evening breeze
A soft hand to squeeze
And countless opportunities

We stop walking
And speak without talking

Fake love poems
And forgotten trees

My skin is speckled
With ghosts from my past

like how ice cold red wine is delicious, but not for company

they call him bill

Papa & Casanova

lists

Jason
Josh
Meagan
Christine
Daniel
Chris A.
Zack
Jon Luc
Mike S.
Ryan
Jessica
Matt M.
Kathleen
-Melanie
Megan P.
Tara
Stefanie
Cynthia P.
Ellyson
Alyssa
Lydia
-Carly
Lindsay
Jeanne
~Kate?
David*
Nesreen
Beth
~Millie
~Matt Z


~edits

the blind side

Adia