Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The leaves are falling
A tree once fruitful, budding and pregnant with blossoms
Now leaves crabapples beneath the dirt
They are bruised, too green and unripe
They are dirty and unripe
I see them scattered beneath the black, black dirt
I cannot meditate on their organic being
For it hurts below my heart
To see them beneath the dirt
The leaves are falling
No [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While riding the elevator of a hospital today, I could not help but notice the many expressions around me. I am that fraction of the population that would prefer to be anywhere else other than the hospital or to know anybody that is residing in one. I suppose this fraction is quite significant but I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sleepless nights are invaluable.
Memories seem to emerge from the shadows. When I was much younger, I was convinced that there were moths on the walls of my bedroom. They were just shadows. Sometimes I still see their shape and I remember how scared I was of the dark and the presence of those fluttering things. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We talk about our voices as writers- how they are strong and brave but how as people we are wimps. This is what creates our craziness. The chasm between the great love we feel for the world when we sit and write about it and disregard we give in our own human lives. How Hemmingway [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Subway station in Milan
August 29th
Tea stained blouse and dirty toes
Weary from the steps of the Duomo
Pigeons peck at the railroad tracks
By the great clock I wait in a pew
I would give anything to touch you
I smile at a man that reminds me of a pocket watch
I watch icecream melt in the case of the gelato shoppe
August 29th, train [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I bet if I asked you, dearest reader, how you spend your time while waiting for a flight at the airport you’d forget to tell me the truth. Now, whether we are friends or not is beside the point because I know that you, like myself and virtually everyone else capable of entering those automatic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve always thought to myself that if I could sing, I would. If I possessed some great talent in the art of singing, you would hear me in the streets and see me on stage. Boy, would you know. I was apart of Calgary Girl’s Choir for a few years and loved being apart of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The initial realization that “things” have changed provides the most frightening and daunting feeling one could begin to understand. In any relationship, say a boyfriend or girlfriend, this is perhaps the most unnerving realization, especially if it is not a mutual one. Heartbreak. Responsibility. Unknown.
In the context of a friendship, it is simply tragic when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My desk faces a new window. There are boxes everywhere that are full of things I have forgotten I posses. There are new clothes with tags on them. Hampers full of blankets and sweaters. Books everywhere. Designs for a shelf on my bare desk. I cannot see the floor. There are too many things here. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Often times I’ve heard people quote life as being a “balance of holding on and letting go.” I’ve come to believe in this entirely. I anticipated to write something surrounding this quote for the past five weeks or so. I’ve always been a mindful girl. I think about longevity, I think about things in terms [...]
