superimposed.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, photography, Thoughts and Feelings
as bedtime, bedtime story, comet, God, hailey, journal, life, look, new baby, pain, rain, regret, Religion, sleep, story, time
she used to write in her journal impatiently;
she used to want to know the end of the story.
but that was before.
before she wanted to forget;
before all she could see was regret.
pouring down, an inescapable rain,
when simply living was synonymous with pain.
like a bedtime story, she couldn’t sleep till she listened.
like a practiced religion.
like a new baby christened.
it had to happen, no it didn’t!
she’s glad it happened, god, no she isn’t!
she doesn’t understand.
‘but just give her time,’ is what they say.
as if time isn’t all that’s left anyway.
and life is Then and it’s Now
and it’s knowing and not knowing how
and it’s the best thing that ever happened to her
all of it’s like hailey’s comet.
so fleeting, ‘but look!’ she says, ‘I saw it.’
‘that’s life,’ she’ll say, ‘I lived it.’
story time.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as anyone, bedtime, couch, craigslist, dark, darkness, Jase, kid, kind, kudos, light, living room, Mature, mother, name, New York City, opp, opposite, ot, person, place, rain, rent, sad today, sleep, sleeping, someone, store, story, story time, time, today, way
Have I ever told you about the time I tried to move in with The Mature Mother? That is not my name for her; that is what she calls herself. It was back when things were so very dark. It is like the opposite of when you see a light so bright, that it has [...]
in which I say absolutely nothing about the 4th of july.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as bedtime, carrots, earthly idea, God, heart, life, longing, man, microphone, summer, The Way, time
Sometimes the summer feels big. Too big; and here I am, small in comparison. The days have lengthened and I am not sure that I can stretch that far too. I am not sure that I can keep up. It is nighttime but not bedtime and I start to feel the way I can sometimes [...]
