artist | theater-maker | poet | dork

remember once, when it was raining,

raining hard, and someone, I thought it was you, talked us all into running into it, barefoot into it, into the rain, and we flung open the heavy old door and ran into it, headfirst into it, and

And all whooping and giggling Matthew slid through the mud and caught the foam football in one hand like a star and I can remember everybody laughed and cheered and

And the whole dorm had come down and there were some people who just stood there and let it soak them, right through them because they could, because it was summer and the rain was kind, and some stood under the arched entryway, smoking, smiling like mothers watching their children get along,

And others danced…

Well, anyway,
I think I left my raincoat in your room.

towards disappearance [detail]
sam francis, 1957-58

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

if you want to reach me,
leave me alone

- sheryl crow (a change would do you good

[just kidding i'm very lonely please write to me]