it's_august uow again blue chicory flowers by the roads blooming the dry ground waiting for rain to fall 040803 ... silentbob and i'm annoyed 040803 ... user24 pitter patter crash boom flash bang. the sky is broken. who will fix it? 040806 ... birdmad and maybe it's the weather, and maybe it's what i ate for dinner disagreeing with me, but just this second, i do not feel healthy 040806 ... TK Why must we look to others to fix our mistakes? 040807 ... mangrove time flies when your summer's being stolen from you. 040808 ... one wrecked angle august_spiders hang on a hand truck, framed perfectly by the curved top. their rhomboid bodies thicken, and thicken the bushes and trees just out of reach. walks along piedmont streets reveal the endless army. seasons and generations pile up like driftwood, while wind rain and errant hands brush them away. 040808 ... shower singer My august is cold, heaters and thick bedsocks. All I feel like eating is soup. The sky is toned down, the air jumps out at you in the morning. Winter is my time. Hugs and blankets. 040809 ... uow july was rainful but august is too hot 35 jump 40 boom 37 ugh degrees degrees degrees all the green is leaving yellow grass so dry lightning flashes crashing i watch helicopters dropping cold water on the mountain across from me a blaze i watch from my living room all afternoon severe thunderstorms warning warning warning this message will self destruct 040819 ... nom) so what if it is 050811 ... APRicochetMVP and i'm counting down the days until i go back to college where i can do so many things that i can't here: have intelligent conversation drink without shame lay in my boxers all day see my baby almost any time i want only 12 more days.... 050811 ... unhinged i don't have college to go back to anymore; that's more than a little scary. i know a lot of august babies. some of the most important babies in my life. there aren't any holidays in august. 050811 ... pete so far this month i've done almost all the things i decided to put on hold til the school year, for good and bad... 050813 ... kerry AND I'M IN COLLEGE weird, no? 050814 ... mcdougall hey congradulations welcome to a greater acadamia where are you going 050817 ... kerry i'm at the university of georgia 050818 ... gja End of winter. El nino or some such mother fucker lurks. Bushfire awaits. Humble in her presence. 110831 ... raze and i am stepping on stones shrinking at my reflection and growing back into myself 210801 ... ovenbird and the geese flew overhead as I was eating blueberries for breakfast. Their cacophony called the summer home, drew the day into itself, packed all the beautiful languishing into a small point of light. I couldn't catch sight of their wings beating back these days of freedom. I only heard their voices, garish and bold splashed across the canvas of the sky. They are so resolute in their leaving, never hesitating, only doing what has to be done to survive. They are not divided but find completion in motion. They are a thing unsettled, an eternal_return. I am a soul made migratory too. My veins are all elastics pulled too tight, ready to snap against the fingers of distance that seek to find the limits of what can yield without breaking. I'm always coming back. Nothing can stop me. i_am_an_endless_loop. 250811 ... epitome of incomprehensibility July managed to be bearable and even pleasant, but now it's just too damn hot. ...On a more appreciative note, and re: ovenbird's words, I also saw some Canada geese in a V last evening! I wonder if they were the same geese - very fast geese in that case. Similar geese? I'll settle for similar geese. And I should be thankful I get three days at the cottage again: today to Friday, in the small window when my time off and my parents' overlap. I haven't been there since May. 250812 what's it to you? who go blather from