In this hospital room everything is mint-colored and between the little girl with the broken leg and the old man who is dying there is a thin curtain. They have never seen each other. Each night the little girl sings to the old man. He always wants to hear the same song. She doesn’t mind.

I think of you still in
the morning and mostly in
the night when
I dip into myself I
think of you
I whisper all the
things I want to tell you all
of the small meaningless
items of the day mean
something to me and
maybe to you.
I think of you still after every bad
conversation and when he touches
the small of my back
I think of you.
still.

Word of the Day
Saturday December 10, 2011
adytum \ad-i-tuhm\ , noun:
1. A sacred place that the public is forbidden to enter; an inner shrine.
2. The most sacred or reserved part of any place of worship.
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But still.
There is a moon and you
are looking at it and I
am looking at it.

Word of the Day
Saturday December 10, 2011
adytum \ad-i-tuhm\ , noun:
1. A sacred place that the public is forbidden to enter; an inner shrine.
2. The most sacred or reserved part of any place of worship.
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I tell this empty room
the things I used to tell you.
I tell the white
walls my secrets and the
details of my days.
It’s not the same but
in a way it’s not that
different.

Word of the Day
Friday, November 04, 2011
prehensible
\pri-HEN-suh-buhl\ , adjective;
1.
Able to be seized or grasped.
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I don’t remember the last thing you said.

The stairs creaked and you seemed
taller than usual.
I turned away and in the wind I felt
opaque and empty.

Curled into myself I imagined
a cold sea full of open oysters

There were no pearls.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, October 25, 2011

mesmerize \MEZ-muh-rahyz\, verb:

1. To spellbind; fascinate.
2. To hypnotize.
3. To compel by fascination.

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I watched you in the kitchen
fixing dinner.
You didn’t cry when you cut the onions
and though you knew I was there
you sort of didn’t.

Across the bar I caught your eye
you smiled and
then you looked away or maybe
I looked away
and the jazz played.

I looked for you in your sleep
and all the places
you were and weren’t.
I could have looked at you forever
if only you had let me.

Word of the Day
Saturday, October 22, 2011
anomie
\AN-uh-mee\ , noun;
1.
A sense of loneliness and anxiety; a state or condition characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.
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It’s been two years, maybe three now. You look the same. I don’t. When you see me trying not to be seen, your shoulders tense. You walk over and touch my arm, and say “So what’s new?” like you’re asking for the square root of pi. Either way I’m not sure I know the answer.

Word of the Day
Monday, October 03, 2011
billow
\BIL-oh\ , verb;
1.
To rise or roll in or like a great wave; surge.
2.
To swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind.
3.
To make rise, surge, swell.
noun:
1.
A great wave or surge of the sea.
2.
Any surging mass.

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The night is swollen and
under the tangled trees
I run my fingertips across
the yellowing leaves.

The leaves hang wet and heavy
they have no memory
still they whisper my mistakes
into my long, tangled hair.
I wanted more than this.

Under the tangled trees
I am holding on and out
listening to dying leaves and
swelling with my own silence.
There must be more than this.

Word of the Day
Thursday, September 29, 2011
woolgathering
\WOOL-gath-(uh)-ring\ , adjective;
1.
Indulgence in idle daydreaming.
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I lie on the floor because it
prevents forgetting.

The wood is smooth beneath my
cheek and in between my body and the
ground my heartbeat is trapped
like a moth.
The plaintive music plays and
the sharp sweet pricks don’t draw
blood just conclusions.

I’m here.

Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 27, 2011

gadabout \GAD-uh-bout\, noun:

Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.
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The streets are wet and hostile
the sky closing in on itself like
a movie with a bad ending.

The wind is sharp and hot
its caresses sting like careless
words or constant pretending.

That warm maple sleep seems
far far away and in this game
there’s no winning just ending.