Perfect Scarves

three Russians talking hottub lively interest melodious flow old woman swims younger couple still talking what sustains exchange no end of problems talk taken regular heads polish positions we know nothing two French "Affair of Love" too sad his insecurity her existentialism so elegant her perfect scarves the red hotel Paris herself civilized service why don't I live there think French Armani suits I don't even speak it

Wrong Amber

tech teen "Hound" charmed kids sincere acting limited intelligibility wrong amber tomorrow change gel replug reprogram my critical eye tries too hard perfection chocolate zucchini cake neighbor ailing normal passage context planet everyone never my fight solution actors politicals must they unbuild ordinary lives desires

Systematic Waste

quiet alternation subtle stereo hiss house myself unhurried opportune confidence reorganizing principles depart shop execute orders return systematic waste obscures intent another extravagant leap instead choose home food avocados ripe legal reasoning rich dense absurd

Different Time

losing subjunctive changes character who-whom lie-lay I-me hopeless blur despair continuing gerund replaced active punchy habits different time need occasion caring readers patient friends free minutes imagine growth

Water Season

complaining instead go do it myself perfectly happier slow methodical nothing to explain I need interested apprentice how interest arise Alfred will come help me work school finals harmony emerges from the need to modulate both mower engines rebuilt grass sun brown hundreds mowing thousands never stop wild will exchange gases cats hisses water season

What Work

he is restless a person of energy and cunning artistic volte-face fortunes revived what work impatience censure children ventriloquism celestial detritus errands interpret explain nothing ruthless appetite exploit how dare you catalogue smiles silences define us all

Elegant Music

waiting for supper till the sun goes down reading Jean-Claude's "Light" Voltaire Emilie Frederick elegant music I like it very much thanks fan blowing directly on me hammock chair collecting intention need coach agent ambition discipline ready occasion set go

Number One

blog al fresco first suggestion evening coolth Dennis can't come drive too bad he's too busy I have time Jean-Claude's men's workshop ran naked through woods past my past cabin one horse show drops another arises best tennis today Roddick Blake dramatic individual will take lesson though I'm not trying number one

Only Weather

it's only weather yet reminds how limited one's tolerance customary comforts seeming vital oh refugees misfortune Iraq tragedy going on Israel bombing Lebanon hideous suffering Darfur Congo else- where Africa terror bombs Mumbai Bush itching attack Iran railway Lhasa workers exploited prisons flourishing schools shamefully starved we adapt if no alternative face all existence suffering

Whimsical Dreaming

unwell weak dizzy bloated farting throat raw coughing fearsome reading Patrick O'Brian "Richard Temple" torture German order collapsing memory complex aspirin saves night renewed 3 a.m. whimsical dreaming resumes furnace testers postpone slow low fleet Schumann too hot make chili iced tea anticipate recovery

Acting

advice to self do things laundry take down put up lights husbandry this my house life funk feeds on idleness out about art fair poets people meeting make scene happen rehearse young actors not myself I am acting

Just Wait

one place or another equally delighted whatever happens just wait ill pain old failing this is easy then try be blithe everything works now here all is death follows

Tremendous Descent

who could build these roads now Chinese memorialize Nez Perce too late brake for deer lyrical western highway tremendous descent La Grande ineffable vegetation cattle scored slopes up down Snake hot windy picnic wheat fields disintegrating barns dying towns Palouse Falls brilliant nap grass bad coffee trashed landscape Sacajawea museum closed dust storm condo boom 100 outlaw shortcut saves morale motel swim read Rostand dine outdoors cheap good light walk beside Columbia people park birds fish turns

Only Now

wake thinking mountain shadow show tunes nuclear survival strange bed sweet sleep kiss best air bright luxury dubious arrival deserted cabins moulder museum family pastimes count road again muffin double latte wintering Indians rattlesnake cattails this corner wilderness property spec future mega we will not be here only now once warm skin touch rushing river

Face Down

dreams are nothing hauntings myself Peter Schuman mask myself big chin Irene returns who you recognizes or accepts mystery computer word pile falling over struggling move sentence combination open cellar archive meet Alfred after lunch phone desk what number old peers rivals do together Billy Harry Ronny Rosalyn Rochelle seize me dark bed write still mind I can sleep face down on either side

Living Here

spies strolling small town back streets how different people live invisible inside sprinklers set houses businesses for sale or mowing driving dropping in at tavern friendly dogs interested carrying steak huge distances casually spanned barns losing siding skeletal roofs porous not quite falling down ranches losing land to sagebrush or prosperous hard work new house noxious weeds hurt forest motel flowers fragrant cutest grown from seed president pleased responds lonely cloud luminous day heat going soft mountain stillness visitors hurry through nothing like actual living here

Real Emotion

"Pink Narcissus" thanks Donald remembered flamboyant trashy obsessive erotic art lively talk John peaceful bedroom dreams stories past enriches present real emotion echoes poets coffeehouse project readings Art Fair booth further News-Press meltdown stories Independent we are there shake our heads thanks "Tarnation" heart-breaking beauty

What Can Be

That lady, like Balenciaga himself, was apt to be hostile to the mood of disaffection that became glamorous when a new generation embraced the louche, the epicene, and the plebeian. (Judith Thurman, New Yorker) wildflower garden matted blooming falling over weeding clearing quickly wears me out no keeping up louche epicene plebeian describes my friends then if not now those closest liveliest sharp spice dreams reliving Yvonne Rainer growing up fascinated her dances essential mine awakening vistas what can be

Oil Change

inner world devoid formal logic millennial expectations thanks Gore wake up do something more thrill images ice crumbling sea oil change chamber music haircut Rocketboom without Amanda last days busy still being born

Energy Rules

Apple keeps track who reads code for everything reinvents language forms inaccessible assumptions this way works another crashes burns loses data this real now came before not again underlying way matterless energy rules

Wax Beans

Both subhuman and superhuman, bestial and divine, Grendel mirrors modern man, completely self-conscious, trapped in his own history, seeking the possibilities of optimism and redemption. (Julie Taymor) fun with friends under walnut with cats cooling breezes champagne pinot gris chicken wax beans salad berries picked sweating in sun we walked along creek riparian woodland growing leave early bedtime after breakfast at Wimbeldon anticipate Mexico finally holding own

Great Art

putting up postcards great art I have seen everywhere Italy avoid crucifixions makes life beautiful meaning how home farm all that out there what remember

Prime Rib

later after First Friday $8.95 prime rib dinner Wolf Building reopening art and commerce another scene midday no perfect but this things are going to get worse no stop world fools try see clear mistakes new forest uneaten

Good Will

Everything is interesting! Pray go and sit on the eggs you have been entrusted with! (Rostand, "Chantecler") Lorraine Hunt Lieberson velvet Händel our music mostly recorded I stumble through Schumann Bach love doing it anyway no one listens just as well after dinner duets again fun together expressing tenderness Beethoven fire wit close synchronize share good will

True Blue

small town fireworks we sat in a nearby field admired sparkles colors blooming toward eyes falling fading watched everyone possible sync I love my country true blue American despite this nation's blunders craven bully power-bad sneaky greedy violent and hardly the worst holding breath in fear what will they do next

Our Way

who appreciates my efforts domestic contract fair partner washing windows sweep garage suburban husband who I am well loved loving each distinct ideas control go each our way appreciate respect other times barely comprehensible so what

Day of Rest

snuggle pancakes Bach Times Art seeking rocks pick peas water trees drift find Hinrich's music read Schumann cheese sandwich dream coffee drift Bob Patrick video honor dead memories supper move hose pick blueberries shop sweep garage Bicky phone day of rest

Just Us

Lora Edward gone just us again plus Phoebe Ginger Tom Chinita Annie Mercedes regulars Traci Faustino Claudia Rollyn Lexi Judy Jim horse chiropractor I am true believer now need no resistance remain myself three-dimension pivot spinal flex remake hors de genre family love

Cool Air

lucid apprehension whither whence for that matter who why bright summer light exposes emptiness of forms cool air arms illusory stability what is moving slowly seems still this world will not survive me momentarily safe pandemonium follows