This morning starts soupy
with buildings emerging like
oyster crackers slowly rising
out of the broth
while lights go out
one by anxious one
all around the city
like hopeful dogs at
the kitchen restaurant door
when at last they
abandon hope of morsels
as more and more
cars zoom this way
and that like salmon
swimming upstream avoiding grizzlies
uncertain as to why
but knowing they must
go wherever they go
Author: Harlan Didrickson
I first started writing this blog as a way to refocus my thinking after a debilitating mental breakdown in 2008. Having been educated in writing, I had hoped that my love for words would have left a trail for me to follow and, well, here we are.
Giant (to Luis)
I met a giant
someone who I’d naturally
avoid like brussel sprouts
when at first spied
having I suppose before
tasted and disliked and
therefore learned to dodge
But this giant was
different he sauntered over
and calmly sat down
and talked about life
and love and intimacy
he indeed waxed poetic
and I sat mesmerized
This giant taught me
an age old lesson
Run towards your fears
and never away for
this giant admitted that
he too feared me
MyPlank (to my lovers)
The notes of DeBussy
take me in one
direction and the coffee
in another while you
still sleep next to
me your breathing reminding
me that I’m alive
even as I write
for both the music
and all the coffee
lifts me far beyond
this bed overlooking mountains
and somewhere else beyond
you there my plank
sleeping going somewhere else
on your dreams adventure
ikr
I have lost everything
so often that I
am now convinced that
I’ve never had anything
And with every failure
and with every loss
of everything had before
the only constant thing
has ever been me
Perhaps I’m the cause
perhaps I’m the reason
definitely I’m to blame
but with every failure
I am confidently one
more step to getting
whatever it is right
There
I do know what
is on the other
side having already been
The other side of
here is there and
once there that there
becomes the new here
and so and so
we go always looking
over there but never
finding it because once
there then there moves
back to where there
there and not here
