Be Brave

after dinner sun glamorizes hill farms winters unspeakably dreary wet cold isolated loves hilltops valleys darken my play plausible not quite finished final gesture defiant optimism reality lies our fate be brave embrace denial

Who Win

age tells true tiring new clothes don't fool self eyes assessment irreversible real work half exhausted still know how who win maintain is enough perfection evaporates secret aim forever subscription expired woo window closed saint someone else

First Sun

Hinrich rescues me again similarly stiff but game to think cork fight glue push through obstacles relish working together certain personal affinity lives happily repeatable pool sparkles first sun then bending to enough

Friends' Eggs

idyllic picnic beside the creek running old new trees rising Catalonian blanco friends' eggs home artichokes my slaw gibbous moon over the barn affection flows Edith Wharton Graham Greene new puritans dish marriage live alone life becomes what is the right person you actually enjoy and still be yourself free flowering seize the kind evening

All Meaning

I don't feel like working, and why should I, it is Sunday of a holiday weekend, is this work? Instantly it is, I don't care, I need something to do, even "Figaro" did not long catch me. Chocolate, the body, roses and peonies aglow in clouded light, fan filtering bedroom air. All meaning in work with words neglects meaningful being waking moments in places.

Standard Form

not me set stone in sand I watch willing perfect fit leveling match some standard form narrative sleight happily murder four Impromptus publishing initiative warm exchange before Couperin who asks I only speak in English words

It Works

real scare talk to them Achilles Brad Pitt it works rehearsing five plays imagine too much do it glue cork ask for money casting act they will come

Shooting Rats

where have I been well across the high desert Hotel Diamond talkative fellow humans watching birds shooting rats thrill cross vast empty west I wanted home bed body thinking all the time about play writing energy robbed blog draft now done new old let sit work on my new cork floor ready gluing please not me twenty-two did Helen Merrill's look where that led who floor mine

News Care

empty ceremony touching friends loose ends clean another moment whose offspring convey news care meaning arbitrary space will heal creative crunch time's traveler far beyond accessible networks form praise imagine determined future

Both Dead

submerge turkey in bourbon cook? pickle? whatever works bicycle red blue or chrome buy 2 get 10% off ask Johnny going down the stairs with Peter both dead I know yes warlike music fake houses nouveau riche so retro now just because we don't like it won't stop it from going on some like jazz taste no virtue avert eyes anywhere you go

On Time

context disassembled congruent pattern broken mended same as ever sequence repeating pattern minded sex text fretted smoking lifetime radio regret free arrived on time matchless vacuum can be met rejected such the dream

Generic Excuses

rezoning threatens raspberry patch across the street would be industrial our peaceful beeping construction hubbub planner no leader consultants apply generic excuses back still hurting gutter scrubbing twist Dr. Chris helps swim with children bind books boy editor abruptly gone file form nonprofit English at 42 loving improved

Regrets Only

archiving myself to what end compulsion desideratum my integrity write living willful print publish embarrassing frank sincere actuality itself defensible real isn't always this Iraq Afghanistan fiasco et al. screwed up leadership regrets only private spared

Early Peonies

death follows not denying long life more to register are we like 35 our leaps beginning not yet wed or childed freely realized only today I then thought half this follows extra possibilities dawning early peonies prevail

Beyond Self

here come's the cottonwood cotton fan on paint demoss pumphouse my back can suddenly give out I hobble around stiffly feel my age ignore it (sitting) accept all writing Alfred too wants a new play by me something being done in New York Peculiar Works benefit my name on e-poster I suggested a few website has texts please read put them on imagination feeds on action craves extension beyond self all included

Speak Love

word glut everything words learning fonts what is this Georgia 13 what is Georgia what do with the beautiful letters communicate speak love Matthew Carter 1996 getaway set we can relax enjoy iris warming spring English children now 28 more on Tuesday happily reconfidenced all May to play then June no slouch

Your Story

daytime dim dither order cork tiles clean drawer windows drifting whither Judith BNVAR gift what is your story why this not expected please tell me what happened

Parallel Comfort

continuity familiarity personalization drama manipulable longings long implanted slow to change new media deepen refer assumptions sacrificing innocents ancient practice lives on no David rational is not real you wish so we all perceive our unity in witnessing cynic learned self parted other restored in parallel comfort

Actual Drama

reality too absorbing always something chores pleasures duties movies patience music how can fantasy compete solitude exhausted ready rise together better do I dare let anything happen my characters have lives protected from actual drama think about it a little here and there too

Creek Walk

wind rushing trees spontaneous creek walk wet after rain fresh airs what words can do what stage sit down to write idea asudden there problem solved all left to do is do it night sounds rushing bangs dim fear rises muffled pillow read imagine somewhere is someone else empty house only spiders me free fantasy body actual matrix possessed

One Man

everything we can get we eat one man supporting eleven to conquer your freedom at last the rain on fertilizer sons to call in a rush going what to say come closer bright for comedy laugh change a gel come home screen "Wild Side" soulful film by Sebastien Lifshitz shot by Agnes Godard we are nowhere doing time