Return to teenage
mind between limbic brain and prefrontal to imagine Persephone spitting dirt
and cobwebs Rip Van Wrinkle stretching limber limbs first thing on your tongue let
it rise up Ambient and sleep tweeter denial another drug of choice make for
home again barefoot and blind the trail long cold crumbs long gone and here is
your fresh start fresh as a wound and wounds love honey blood in the honey iron
sweet so is a cardinal’s jubilation every resonate note an arrow straight stand
straighter feet planted in a new look whipped up rainbow open network fetid breath
in shadow homecoming more cobwebs to lace up a wandering detail Lilith wailed Mary wept it dissolved the accretions it shed skins so the center can fly apart
you let it like the cottonwood see adolescents do this daily.
April 17, 2020 Today’s celebration – Last May I attended the annual school fundraising gala. Browsing the items on the silent auction tables, I found nothing that that stirred my avarice, so I took another tack and decided to find things that I could have fun with or devise pleasure from, as a way to justify some necessary opening bids. There was an impressive box of chocolate bars with a couple bottles of red on which I entered the first bid, and I paused at a wooden crate with another pair of wines, nice glasses and a gift certificate for a charcuterie tray. The vintner of the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay was Kosta Browne. Without a thought of the initial bid being the winning bid, I scratched my offer on line #1 - $150. I did covet a set of hand thrown mugs from our headmaster’s wheel, but found my bid lost in the healthy bid escalations. By the end of the evening though, I was the winner of the box of wine and chocolate and the two bottles of Kosta Browne. Once at home
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