Whistling for Moonbeams

When I bristle, my forehead still distorts itself into impossible lines. When I feel the lines carving themselves into my forehead, a frie...

Finally, the denouement to the crest, the crescendos flocking towards stillness, the pieces falling back into place. It didn't seem po...

Today, I tried to make the most of daylight. I read one hundred eighty two pages of Byatt's Elementals outdoors. I prefer reading by su...

Last book I read: What I'm reading right now:

And how deelish is this? Baz Luhrmann, you're so tops! Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Leonardo Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mullig...

Terrence Malick, 2011 "Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and in...

I’m always breaking something, a hand-thrown mug, a path, a promise. This life requires a map I can’t find, a gentleness I can’t feel, a sur...

Listening to my girls Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell , with some sprinkling of Diane Birch and Carly Simon , dreaming of green hilltops and...

Without a doubt, my favorite version.

party theme Congo Grill, West Gate, Alabang Registration peeps The boys, first Then, the girls party peeps The audie...

Oh starbright, starbright You've got the lovin' that I like, all right... Up there's a heaven Down there  is a town Blackness...

Vacillating vixens. Meandering mannequins. Grappling grizzlies. Pixies' pinkies. Clamoring clarinets. Magnets magnified. Smiling smokers...

(photo from  Coffee Mood ) I treated myself to a tall Toffee Nut Latte for my first taste of Christmas at Starbucks. Toffee Nut is the on...

I know, I know. I should have come up with a better title, but the first word that came to mind was "domestic", and then I natural...

"...morning is the soul's night."   —   David Foster Wallace,   Infinite Jest Twilight rouses the soul from its slumber, a...

Let's see. So, I've: added Hershey's milk chocolate with almonds and Green Cross hand sanitizer to my grocery list and Escada ...

The night stretches out before me, the hours small from where I am, the shadows innocuous, the dark presenting no threats, but only from whe...

If the line forms to the right, chances are, you'll find me on the left. Surely there'll be one, or two, others there, on the line, ...

moonlight and cool breezes and my favorite perfume and gold-colored flip-flops and sunlight in the morning and pink curtains and teal nail p...

Weight: 97 lbs (gained 3 lbs from the recent week-long break from work) Height: diminutive, still. pffft. hahaha Books read: .5 (I know, r...

by Lou Lipsitz Have a nice day. Have a memorable day. Have (however unlikely) a life-changing day. Have a day of soaking rain and lightni...

It's been chaos here there everywhere. It's as if everyone I know is in a whirlwind of some kind, or other. The crescendos, all arou...

The exhaustion brought about by roads and crossroads and detours and highways, the mind's fatigue of housing images of roads and crossro...

is mine, too.

So many days, oh so many days seeing you so tangible and so close, how do I pay, with what do I pay?  -Pablo Neruda How to assuage the...

"While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone."   —  Pablo Neruda

"I have three children, six grandchildren. They're busy. They're too busy to talk to me. I gotta make an appointment. They got ...

You should go on a vacation, book a flight to LA. I'll grind the coffee beans right before the plane lands and we can talk - about the d...

Movie seats. Chris Evans is gorgeousness.

" But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want."

There is no cure for envy. Move on, lady. And look in the mirror before you do. Maybe you'll see something there that needs some fixi...

And your hunger is not for experience but for understanding, as though it could be had in the abstract. -Louise Gluck, "Moonbeam...

So, Mercury is retrograding today. Gives light (however twisted) to all this mess. Best to keep still. Resisting would be futile. Until ...

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain and work should all sleep, now. The night turns on its invisible ...

it holds on to what it shouldn't, pines after what is gone, long gone; from what is there, chooses what is no longer there and, therefor...

Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is the way it's always been: bad with large numbers. It is still moved by particul...

The next day, though you're here with me, I can't help looking at the clock: -Wislawa Szymborska, "Nothing Twice" At ...

by Wislawa Szymborska There is much I owe to those I do not love. The relief in accepting they are closer to another. Joy that I ...

4 years. Hmm. It's been a while. Glad to still have you in my life. =) This greeting is 11 days late. Haha

"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contem...

Last night the apple trees shook and gave each lettuce a heart - from "In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden" by Matthea Harvey

There can be method to the madness, but a choice has to be made. Neither mid-way nor half-way is a good place to be. Something either is, ...

Don't make me responsible/ for something that you can't find./ I don't mind us to build tension/ but we've got to move in...

BY   AMY LOWELL All day I have watched the purple vine leaves Fall into the water. And now in the moonlight they still fall, But each leaf ...

"To raise the veil.   To see what you're saying goodbye to."   —   Louise Glück

And how predictable was it that I should go to our Town Hall as Daphne? My purple sheath dress, wide, brown belt, nude Anthologys (good as...

‎ "At first I saw you everywhere.   Now only in certain things,   at longer intervals."   — Louise Glück For no matter how muc...