At the Back of Hodson Hall
At the enormous back windows of Hodson Hall, looking east towards Falcon Heights’ standing homes, over an expanse of grooved fields—carefully worked, a person can gleam breaking light caught on cement...
View ArticlePro Tips for Planning your Perfect Life
“If you can’t please yourself, who can?” -Ma In the morning I start planning, by the time I am done it is mid-afternoon. I find that I have all things figured out, in finding that happiness is without....
View Articleyou look like you got some sun
One of my favorite phrases to hear on Monday is, “Oh, you got a bit of sun over the weekend…” The idea of going outside and sitting in the sun without buildings, without work, without people, without...
View ArticleAdjusted Advantage
The world can seem so small when assessed from the confines of a one bedroom apartment. A space tight, sticky, stuffy, and near unbearably drab. For a person to go outside and look, to see all there is...
View ArticleHow I write poetry
Could they hear me at the desk oozing prose onto the page, clipping hard at the keys for grammar, few words and blank space, giving my all just for free writing? Had they known my walk through the...
View ArticleCity Vantage
In varied ways The city’s buildings stand; Tall as they are, up with birds And clouds, Holding those lives Seething, going, and watching There inside. Mazes put up for institutions, Humans go about...
View ArticleI love coming early
Good morning Midwest, there is joy to be found in objectively taking the peeking sunrise, even behind overcast clouds. It happens so early in fact that you can taste the shine of the drinking fountains...
View Articletalk of reason
peering out of an open screen window, there are wet cars and pavement, there are trees and stairways, and what does it mean? she says over the phone everything happens for a reason, and today is sort...
View ArticleSimple Satisfaction
Once I thought I would try something new. It garnered no notice and nothing happened. I felt good because I was doing what I loved. It didn’t matter about recognition in the end.
View ArticleMapping Life (Broken Case)
Broken case, & we ask for a fix. Set life, & we want this framework society whole, for we stay. I imagine the world as a walk through a snow-covered dale. (Alone, yet we are acutely...
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