02-24-09

I spent time carefully picking out library books
and approaching the front desk,
learned that my address was ineligible for a library card.

- one star -

02-23-09

While watching a stoplight sway in the afternoon wind,
I tried to decide who I would tell first
if it were to crash down onto the street.

- two stars -

02-18-09

Instead of some intoxicating drink,
the goblet brimmed with spare change.

- two stars -

02-16-09

As the sun set tonight,
the sky turned a cotton candy pink and blue.
It felt insincere.

- one star -

02-13-09

Rather than use the hand saw
to cut each stump into workable pieces of wood,
I opted out of the entire process.

- four stars -

02-12-09

After a long while listening, I realized that my mind had wandered.

- two stars -

02-11-09

Noticing that the holes in my shoes were quickly getting larger,
I became excited at the prospect of both thicker socks
and warmer weather.

- three stars -

02-10-09

It was too cold to bike last night. I put on gloves and walked.
When a friend asked if I had biked,
I answered truthfully that I had not.

- three stars -

02-09-09

While in my backyard, sitting and facing the fence that borders the street I can make out people passing by through the spaces in each board. It occurred to me later that they could make me out through those very same spaces.

- one star -

02-04-09

In conversation I mentioned that I liked to draw.
"What medium," she asked.
I answered that I liked to use paint.
"Me too," she said.
I said that I thought it was a wonderful program.
"I meant real paint," she said.

- two stars -

02-03-09

when i learned that guitarists who play often
can suffer a condition called 'guitar nipple',
i looked toward my own guitar apprehensively.

- two stars -

02-02-09

i've tried again and again to sit at my desk
but it is either too short or my legs are too long.
nothing changed about that today.

- one star -

02-01-09

there are two electrical outlets in my room.
one on the wall that i use. there is another on the ceiling,
i tried it and it didn't work.

there is one working electrical outlet in my room.

- one star -