the_need
belly fire I felt the crisp air hit my face and I wanted to lie down - right there on the wet ground.
Instantly, I felt the weight of need for a good hard cry.
Perhaps it was the sight of rain - the relief of it - in the middle of December with its cursed cold.
And, as I padded to my car, I thought of Kale:

wet with rain

shroud of darkness

starving for snowflakes

and maybe...

laughing.


But oh, how I longed to cry then.
To wear my face in tears.
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bespeckled It engulfs me
and makes me nostalgic
and makes me want to curl up into a ball protected from feeling
and from thoughts of you.
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Cicero and suddenly my camera really begins to focus. 030101
...
misstree all thoughts alined,
magnetized around a pole,
i try to deviate and return to
searchingquestinglongingtearing
myselfapart with each step through
glass, through painful clarity, through
focus unwavering, each breath a chant
of need of need of need
inescapable.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from