too many teeth, some Fringe, a Chiss

That pack of dog days catches me up, a sweaty sciatica riot.  (Riot: Anything hounds might hunt they that shouldn’t during a fox hunt.) Each Tere yip and Tere bark, is one more Tere taken in vain from me.   (Tere: a diminutive of the name Teresa, an alternate spelling of Theresa.)My sanity wavers. As expected. …

The Summertime Sadness

Summertime in a climate privileged location doesn’t mean krayt spit when your house is a godless two-in-one solar convection oven / shack. It’s been consistently about 80(f) and over during the day inside.I try to pretend I am in Miami again. That doesn’t help much. Miami is even more godless than this place. And have I been …

Scissors, Paper, R- ags

I was doing some paper collaging recently and in the moment wondered why it felt so appropriate to have a workspace strewn with paper cuttings. Then I remembered my mom would have a pile of papers at the table. She went through them, carefully select something that was meaningful, and tear or cut it out …