Category: Music

  • AFTERWORD

    AFTERWORD A Found Poem in Memory of Anthony Bourdain I will always carry my heart around, my entanglementsa big room free of country, and most certainties.My dreams travel in strange beauty, telling me what to do —if I can relax or drink in fully, or if I have been comforted.Beyond normal human itinerary, I don’t…

  • HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK

    HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK I need to live like that crooked tree — / solitary, bittersweet, and utterly free — / that knelt down in the hardest winds // but could not be blasted away. / It kept its eye on the far horizon / and brought honey out of the rock. – Green…

  • HE WAS A BRILLIANT GODDAMN HEDGEHOG

    “We have no idea what we don’t know, or what we’ll eventually learn, or what might be true despite our perpetual inability to comprehend what that truth is.” -But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman That statement might seem gloomy to some, but I…

  • EDDIE CHEDDAR, Year Three

    Three years ago last night, or sometime before that night, someone, in the company of an adorable, tiny, filthy, ear-mite-ridden, wounded-lip kitten, left that kitten – the veterinarian would later presume − in front of a neighborhood. The kitten spent at least Halloween night on his own in a world full of cars and kids…

  • EYE ON EYE

    After an extra slippery shower soap went on a sudden journey knocking over a liter of shampoo onto my foot, for the past two weeks I’ve had a very sore toe. I can move it, so I don’t think it’s broken, but it’s whatever is closest to that, because it hurts. I’ve tried to stay…