Archive for November 2009

Here’s To Shoving Things Out Of Windows.

In Brain Functions on 27 November 2009 tagged failed attempts at metaphysics, father, mistakes, oh well, windows, you don't know me with 3 comments

All of a sudden, there is a burst of music. It’s less an unwelcome intruder and more an unexpected friend. The noise, pushing against the interlaced ossifications of my skull and, in a final effort, managing to break through and fall against grey matter and into my wholly satisfied arms, a lover who always leaves [...]

Terminal Buds Can Divide Indefinitely, Cells Following One After The Other.

In Brain Functions, Cognition on 20 November 2009 tagged connections, math, patterns, puzzle, triangles, what am I saying with 2 comments

You know that triangle puzzle you learned in grade school one Monday when the teacher forwent the lesson plan for something a little more “out of the box”? Or maybe when your uncle Wallace drew it for you on the back of a shopping list, getting the proportions a little wrong, rounding the corners a [...]

Going To Make Myself Some Toast.

In Brain Functions, Reckonings on 19 November 2009 tagged elevators, listening, liu bolin, mornings, strange with 2 comments

Today I discovered that, among other things, I will never be a salesman. The boxes of confectionery I’m supposed to sell are sitting on the kitchen table, elongated pentagonal cupolas of brown (more black than yellow) polyethylene plastic. Yesterday a boy sold ten in half an hour, and I debated between throttling him or hugging him: which [...]

Me Regardless Of You.

In Correspondence, Paroxysm on 14 November 2009 tagged angry, annoyed, leave me the hell alone, oh well, you don't know me with 1 comment

I don’t really mind being the heretic for you, honest. It’s okay with me. But I’d like you, my Circe girl, my own human Strait of Messina, to know something: no.
There is no day, no fractal path, no possible dimension created from any combination of events leading from the Big Bang to the present where [...]

How To Make Believe.

In Beloved, Brain Functions, Paroxysm on 12 November 2009 tagged ambiguity, astronaut, nothing, you don't know me with 1 comment

I wish I could blow you a rolling molten glass bowl. Bristol blue, cobalt oxide left in the inside of your mouth: a hydria, a metaphor, a background voice. Eyelids are lined purple on the insides, barring and unbarring, the hem of your jacket as you bend down to open a bag floating and connecting [...]

Miller-Urey Experiment And Why I Can’t I Evolve (Chemically)?

In Cognition on 8 November 2009 tagged evolve, legos, random, spontaneous with 3 comments

I’m re-reading what I’ve been writing and, to be honest, it’s pretty baffling. EMMA IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE OBVIOUS TO THE INTERNET THAT YOU ARE MENSTRUATING.
I find it difficult to compromise the different concepts of the human being evolution has deemed we become and the human being the modern world insists we are. Yes, [...]

I Drew A Picture Of Us In A Blue Balloon.

In Brain Functions, Cognition on 5 November 2009 tagged happy, melodrama, ridiculous, teenage with 2 comments

There’s nothing wrong. I am girl fighting over bathroom jurisdiction, clothes still a little soggy from the clothesline, running in time with traffic lights and yes, I do catch that school bus Monday through Friday, you thought I wouldn’t, didn’t you?
It’s nothing glamorous. Elbow on desk, cheek in hand, books splayed and sweater discarded on [...]

Oh, I Don’t Even Know.

In Diagnoses on 1 November 2009 tagged dying, jellyfish, not love, sea with 2 comments

We, nimble fingered, smelling of bay leaf and soapstone. We, ignoring the space where Pangaea breathes into Panthalassa, sea-sky becoming indistinguishable, bred into confusion and birds cooing upside-down. Cutting hair with dirty kitchen scissors. Taking bikes and going and going, not really wondering when we should turn back.
I wrote you an opera once, a sort [...]