Thursday, February 10, 2011

Particular about specifics, his attention to the miasma of potential panaceas was easily distracted



"Everybody in the whole damned world is so damned serious."
     From, Haruki Marukami's
     The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles

Monday, February 7, 2011

The Vulnerability Artist

I am always already afraid
of failing them.

Guilt prone
for anticipating danger,
my parenting vacillates
unconvincingly strident
between faith and will.

Their disinterestedness
in this condition
is the grace
where I place
all of my gratitude.

*

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

On the Occasion of My Forty-Third Birthday

A calendar Looks ferocious Increasingly