It’s possible that Frances is the goofiest dog I’ve ever owned.
Month: July 2014
This
Found on the fridge of a friend, while I was helping her move.
Lapdog
A Poem a Day…
Body Sonnets
I. Credibility
from Rachel Dilworth’s The Wild Rose Asylum
I’ve been reading a metric shit ton of poetry this month. July was Camp NaNoWriMo, and this time around I elected to write a poem a day. So I’ve been reading and writing and writing and reading. Rachel Dilworth’s The Wild Rose Asylum is absolutely heartbreaking. It’s about the Magdalen laundries in Ireland. Dilworth received a Fulbright scholarship to travel to Ireland, where she conducted research for the book.
I also read Nicole Cooley’s The Afflicted Girls, about the Salem Witch Trials. It, too, is heartbreaking.
Assholes Are Cheap Today
These bozos were in the back field, shooting a compound bow. The line of trees and shrubs are hiding another apartment complex. Which they are shooting toward. Assholes.
I don’t know if they even live here, or if they just thought this looked like an awesome place for target practice. There were two people out in the field, playing with their dogs, while this was going on.
Another Good Day
My bad knee started misbehaving half-way to work this morning. It was unstable all day, and I wasn’t sure what the hell I was going to do if it was still hurting when it was time to go home. It did pretty well, though! I had a few twinges walking home, when I put my weight on it wrong, but it held up.
Black Eyed Susan
Staff Meeting Doodle
pencil on steno paper
3 1/2 x 3 inches
A Most Excellent Tree
I pass this tree (and several like it, but none as fine as this one) when I walk to and from work. I think it’s a beech. It’s an old one and quite lovely.
Graffiti
There’s a pedestrian underpass I use to cross the bypass, when I walk to work. It’s fairly new. Last spring, there was no graffiti. Slowly the darn kids have painted the hell out of it, and I actually kind of like what they’ve done with the place.
red paper boat 