fancy frayed

i’ve imagined a tomorrow — a whole series of them, in fact suited for illustration in comical pen and ink to be sold for $20 a print and hung on the walls of the living rooms of a set smarter than i subscribe to — and it is charming with a cherry-red door one million … Read more

midnight-morning memo

i don’t remember inviting you to my dreams, so stop showing up unannounced, would you?

blow away

a wind sprang high in the west like a wave of unreasonable happiness and tore eastward across england, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. in a million holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. in the inmost … Read more

in dreams

dreamscape

i dreamed last night that i died. it was at night, dark, and raining. i was driving. apparently i hit something. there was music, not in the car. there was light, not man-made. i knew the car was careening toward something. i knew it was crumpling. i knew my soul was separating from my body. … Read more

star bright

january twenty-seventh

a lone goose just flew by outside, honking as if to inject its solitude with conversation. when i say “just” i mean five minutes or so ago when i began thinking this thought. a lot of other thoughts have come and gone in the space between, but the goose remained. i started to write a … Read more

wide awake

flutterbye5

here my dear this is where we’ll shake the nightmares free — jon foreman, in my arms

big dreams, little girl

flicker

i dream a lot. not just night dreams — daydreams, and things i want to do or be a part of someday. a lot of those “someday dreams” are things i would absolutely love to do and pour myself into, but there are obstacles in the way — mostly money, but also time and the … Read more

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