31 march

another plan another day
iterations
of course you can walk away
the difference it makes to wear a new green sweater
daisy earrings
expectation of follow-through
someone else is also waiting for you (not so together either)
the pride of keeping cool
the freeze of rising above feeling
professionalism, broken heart
out for lunch, defeat disconnect
small bricks build big bridges
listen more, always, do more
coffee shop a novel idea i spent years writing and still find myself drafting from cup to time
she's crossed her fingers i'll be accepted - my letters have helped her take her pick
pretty soon it will be time to BLANK

30 march

keeping aligned
keeping in line
skating by
skating along
the long road to nowhere
nowhere to go in a hurry
curry in a hurry
worry in a basket
counting all the eggs
hatching too soon to be so old
colder than welldigger
well-spoken hocus pocus
poke around to see what's there
ready made and ready to where
where we're going is anyone's guess
guests at the table means dinner is served
nobody's coming but more is deserved
choose from no menu and mind all the nerves

29 march

and by the time i have cleared the space the pen is wrong and also the words - better for tomorrow to add its best chances - bean bags tossed through calendar - each line too dry for sauce to save - don't blame the ink, the pen, the late page in the notebook and the awkward margins - excuses are the only space between now and progress or death - as if dramatic was the only tone to take - monochromatic

28 march

to braven into building the better conversations - to avoid the rub where raw turns friction to pain at the least pass - too sensitive for words or glance or sound - turn a different page - bridge - even a some other path appears - has always been there - now there seems no other way - grow a different metaphor free verse without metered matters

27 march

again i imagine city living - a leaf floating between buildings - practicing smiling and reflecting positive energy on the metro on the sidewalk in the species closer together - here the energy is different and the sparks charge and change with different volts - wondering how long the power would last or if it would drain would draw out all that's left - being the better neighbor is sometimes easier when there's looking when there's so much stage but still we must go home turn out the light

26 march

and when i catch my breath i will put all the pieces together - craft layouts and language through genre and meaning and send my voice from new to the else - and yet somehow still only these notes these scattered pieces -

• from dream: i want desperately to mind-populate with you
• intro versions: a solo collective
• meditations in a fitting room
• page covered in bricks but in pencil so that within is all that copies forming classified style content format
• podcast integrated with blog

even as full novels await revision and pages meet each other up close for long and considered private consultation - why else were they created? we all ask

25 march

even as the cherry blossoms/too windy the sky presses back against/white tulips heavied by the week/stubbornly carried into weekend/petals torn popcornquick by the open door/never mind and any way/cannot hold close enough