portrait pickings

my cousin in her NYJC uniform

yes i like candid shots.

awake at 2.30am doing postmodernism essay.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

&

Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus

Happy 62nd Birthday

Toy animal identification attempts by my mother

1) Bear
2) Chipmunk
3) Squirrel
4) Rabbit
5) Beaver

Can anyone guess correctly? LOL

on the outside

standing outside of myself

i try i can't see
in, body a

tightening knot of coarse

strands, inedible pit,

hardened blank
deafening the

inward eye with

white hush-violence
i cannot swallow

after prayer

breathe.

and stretch

to shrug and

shake off

clinging dusk,
collapse a mantle

upon itself

stepping
into

light
warming,

brighter-

growing lighter,

shedding shape-
less-
ness

for form,

filling me limb to

limb, fingers

to feel my

face and

arms to wrap around a

body hiding a

heart

surely beating

beating surely

a day tears into the

next and the next

spills out not

quite the right way

i'd wanted it to

all at once

uncontainably

breaking

sliding,

melting, fallen

thrown away

better days ahead :)

posting old photos because i don't have anything new.