Tuesday, October 18, 2011

sketchbook: Dad

In response to the question, what advice, story, words I'd give a new dad:

all those scribbled words written in a life time crinkled with my dad's name. our relationship is thus, the best gift i ever gave him was a simple framed picture of his smiling dog, Rocky, he saved from a dog beater while we were kids. My best lessons were learned from how he had us raise that dog. The other advice, Dad and daughter speak best in music passed back and forth between each other.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

abstract(ing) feeling

off to bed. a double at work tomorrow. my spider senses tell me i have a surprise trip ahead of me. i think i know where i'll be early November. could we make it late?

i think i have control.
repeating to those loose ends,
frayed waves saluting the wind,
i got this.

set my days up between sunrise and sunset
sunset and sunrise
 swaying

i always knew this
        i know nothing.

a skew view

feel. that's deeper than i've been these days.
i could go for a little of that
i'm feeling. its there,
happy, excited, afraid, sour, sore, hopeful, numb, sweet lemony.
is knowing a feeling?
internal healing?
i don't want to go there

disconnected. reflected perspective
seeping into this mirror deep.
overwhelming even me.

so much praise my way these days, people
those external things that walk around me
and remember the things I say
i'm only seeing their beauty. and they keep giving it back
except

it reminds me i am connected. you. me. us. love is all i got.
all
        i
           know
                     how
                                to be.
  sometimes its crass. i'm too brazen.
i turned my curse long ago into a gift, my present.
this presence holding your story high
because i'm in there. liberated.
liberating you in me. makes sense, see.

lets dance, play and sing. tear down these fears and face travesty with a new thought.
it was there with the fear think all along. i see this, my inter connectivity sings.

its too much for me. haha.
 the tangled mess i weave to simply not see
i'm not ready to go home,
 stare down my mother's mortality.
and me, no feeling.

its there disconnecting.

its home, why would i ever feel anything? keep a page. lock it up tight. digesting. deer god,
let me sing

i'm going home. and i don't want to.
i don't got this.
i have no control.
at least i see.
witch     means
i got this.
this going sucks, but i'll be fine.
dam it.
gurgled sigh,
four-year old temper rant
upward-facing dog into adult
collapse in surrender

will someone just hold me?


Friday, October 14, 2011

scattered

completely detached from my emotions
like retinas