Whistling for Moonbeams

In the meantime, I'm sick and hived all over. 

"Apollo and Daphne" oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, 1908 Daphne and Apollo At the end of the pursuit is a reversal: ...

Chow King Halo-halo + Fruits in Ice Cream + Yellow Cab NY Classic + Icebergs Halo-halo + Starbucks Iced Grande Mocha + Tater's white che...

The mind and the heart hunger for flight but the feet remain on the ground. The soul dreams of its displaced darkness.

by Billy Collins Every day the body works in the fields of the world Mending a stone wall Or swinging a sickle through the tall grass— ...

The girl in the purple dress always feels a jolt when she walks into a club, no matter how hard she tries to prepare herself, and tonight is...

The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions.  -Elizabeth Bishop, "Conversation"- The mirror throws back a child's face...

Shut your eyes and think of somewhere Somewhere cold and caked in snow By the fire we break the quiet Learn to wear each other well And...

sprawled, limp, on the chair. My eyes trace its drowsy lines and I ask "why the weariness?" and you say, "I don't know....

this restlessness, this wandering into near nearness, this wondering if that scent is the scent of rain, of evening, or of something else. I...

-"The Wild Iris", Louise Gluck- Last night, just before I fell asleep, I remembered that May was my dark month. The thought fell...

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." -author unknown-

Twilight is almost here. Someone just sighed. Repression is maddening. Last night's laughter and songs have been left on last night...

is wondering who the next president will be. Would be extremely sad if this country bursts into orange once the counting ends. Yellow is a m...

Ted Neeley, "Gethsemane" Slim, 40-something, Caucasian woman in a tie-dyed sleeveless top, sitting very straight and very tall. ...

“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of ...

A: This is really cool! B: What is? A: Waffle. Sevendust. B: Whoa. You like that song? A: I already told you, I fell in love with it the...

If somebody asked me what the verbal equivalent of a rolling of the eyes is--- --I don't think I'd know what to answer.

the iPod we patiently save part of our paychecks for; the concert we brave the Friday rush hour to get to, on time; that painting in the caf...

This darned, friggin' heat is certainly pulling up the cranks. Blame it on the sun, sure.  And blame it on "Glee" for bringin...

But she knew what it was like to be still, that piece of a moment when the mind wakes up to the sound of something crashing... -from ...

Well, what do you know... It's raining tonight.

The days seem to have acquired an aimlessness to them. Perhaps, it's that standstill brought by the heat, that dry, dry mist in the air ...

Forsaking despair, we are keen on shoving this faith into ourselves... -J. Neil Garcia, "Smoked Salmon Surprise"- The two of...

A walk across the rooftops   by Luis Katigbak

the feet to arch, nonchalant, on heels. Each conversation is a potential fight to be won. Paint the eyebrows just so--even a frown should sp...

Simmering after that extended outburst did you think it'd be this soon the blue takes over In the middle of pretending to give options w...

From "Gift" by J. Neil Garcia And you are everywhere even as you are nowhere in touch, for here is the place things cherish...

ni Mesandel Virtusio Arguelles Hindi man malaman ng mundo nilalaman naman ng mundo Hindi man malaman ng mundo nailalaman sa mundo ang ...

and was greeted by Jorie Grahams, Louise Glucks, Billy Collinses, and Robert Hasses. Why, oh, why does money always have to be an object? ...

by J. Neil Carmelo Garcia, from The Sorrows of Water Her error is believing she can only love him with the soul. For her sake he has ...

this frown this mole that shirt these books these days this lock of hair those handkerchiefs those years those years those years that wearin...

Every summer season seems hotter than the last one . One feels almost ungrateful for the breeze because the heat it brings along stings th...

these days, is my capacity to drift by and over and back, that penchant for indifference, that c'est la vie attitude, that shrug, that ...

Mercury is retrograding come April 18th. Exhale, my dears. The thing to do is to chill .

This crossed my mind while I was brushing my teeth this morning: Between "Before Sunrise" and "Singles" is the distinct...

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The book I'm reading, even as it is remarkably written (and perhaps it is owing to this, too), hits too close to home and I find that I ...

from chapter 10, p. 497: And she, Frederica, had had a vision of being able to be all the things she was: language, sex, friendship, though...

is seeing one's child shed quiet tears. Thank you for getting well, my baby. You gave mommy quite a scare.

We talk of sadness and agree not to.

" As though the very act of unbosoming one's secret self were simply another way of affirming it ." -J. Neil C. Garcia, Myths ...

Yesterday, over snacks of cookies and chocolate cake: JACKIE: Mommy, which would you rather choose, the heart or the soul? ME: (silence) KIM...

So this is what it's like on a Monday morning here. There are too many people, too much noise from the adjacent road, too many conversat...

Facing a door almost always brings about that feeling of waiting, that sense of expectation, some imminent arrival-- even when there is no b...

“Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.” -author unknown-