Month: July 2012

  • Latter

    Sticky phrases
    like
    Love requires the right time and place
    And the right people

    You can have the wrong people

    Or

    You can have the wrong time and place

    The former isn't as tragic
    As the latter

  • Drought VII

    Queen Anne's Lace
    Pokeweed
    Foxtail
    Canada Thistle
    Bull Thistle
    Horseweed
    Prickly lettuce
    Velvetleaf
    Mile-a-Minute
    Crabgrass
    Jimsonweed
    Eastern Black Nightshade
    Brambles

  • My first brush with my film camera

    I recently bought a fancy smancy Olympus OM-D with all the bells and whistles...

    ...but I also secretly bought a cheap medium format film camera: the Yashica Mat 124G

    I just got back the negatives, and it wasn't great:

    But then again...

  • RE: Taking a Picture...

    That's:
    Me taking a picture of Vi
    Taking a picture of Krysten
    Taking a picture of Beth..
    Taking a picture

  • Drought VI

    She only breathes when it rains
    And it hadn't rained in years
    Like being punched in the stomach
    Never to catch your-

    He envelopes and intertwines
    Accumulating in the air
    To settle as dew
    If the ground was fertile

    She only breathes when it rains
    He on the fertile plains
    A hand swimming in the air
    Trying to catch the one they-

  • Drought V

    Don't you for a second think
    that you aren't at the mercy of something greater
    Cried the Old Man

    Yeah, there are elements that we think can't control
    Then we find that we can
    Cried the Old Lady

    You can't control weather
    You can control your reaction to it
    Oh stoicism

    Things change
    Oh pragmatism

  • Drought IV

    Everybody ran giddy
    In the street
    Dropping pens
    Paper
    Napkins
    And
    never to return

    Plants in anticipation of a good drink
    Air conditioners oblivious in their hum

    And they run
    Everyone

    People exclaim that running in the rain
    Gets you just as wet
    As walking in the rain

    I like this
    Something about living your life one way
    Only to find it is wrong

    Even if it isn't true