black_clouds_rolling birdmad i've been quiet at nights. fueled by the incessant paranoia of lightning and phone lines. walk home from work in the relative cool of the charged air waiting for the storm as granite-grey mountains of cloud gather around the eastern horizon in stark contrast to the wisps and puffs of cloud to the west painted in rose colors against the slowly setting sun "i retrace the steps that led me here but nothing lives behind me" crossing the threshold of my door as the wind picks up, sound of corrugated metal next foor and among the old warehouses rattling and humming in the currents. sound of excitable kitten chirping calling out at my arrival at the door, sensation of claws through fabric and skin as she scrambles up my leg and into my hands, happy to see me a little thunder much-needed rain the occasional bolt of lightning so close it lights up the sky like high noon (smell the air ionizing around the strike) 030731 ... megan sitting in my chair above the water, still wearing sunglasses but not quite sure why two kids in the pool now one until it becomes sunny again, we won't get paid 030731 ... x a few drops here and there... waiting for the real rain to come... 030731 ... nomme i could see the smoke coming across along up the valley mixing dry lightning thunderclouds 030821 ... oldephebe birdmad - when are you going to stop dallying here and get published - I'm again all out of superlatives and stuff - meager store house and all that seriously - publish, get paid, see your name emblazoned across the prickly charcoal bleeding page - what the hell was that? just say bravo and get on with it - maybe a swath of charcoal exudate .. blah blah? no interior censure tonight guys - my bad beautiful letters birdmad *nods in that oh so subtly masculine way,* 030821 ... three words longdistance rumble black_clouds_rolling 041222 ... tombe_seul and you just to scream at them to stay. 041222 ... tombe_seul and you just want to scream at them to stay. 041222 ... three words weary there_are_times black_clouds_rolling 050319 ... () (bird) 050320 what's it to you? who go blather from