Turns out my happy place may well be Katie Fontana's home spaces.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Tonics
I. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: I am here for this cultural moment.
II. Muffins and Sanditon: a "therapist"'s response to the atrocities in the news.
III. Helpful: what not to bring to a desert island stranding.
IV. Ibuprofen and Frappuccino: a guide to pronouncing tough words like Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Enough Love
Even when his legs are fully extended they don’t touch the seat in front of him. Mostly he just touches me, which is okay. His father looks to be in his 40s, salt and pepper hair, broad shoulders and unexciting blue jeans. He’s tall. I assume he is the kind of tall that takes care of people, like reaches for things in the overhead bin for old ladies or carries multiple children to the house at once; that gentle, spacious tall.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Cosmic Sorcery
Monday, October 9, 2023
Heroic Work
A dentist's pick.
Slowly down the ladder
into darkness.
Feeling towards bones
held by the weight
of accumulated soil and stone.
Patient. Gentle.
Tender and reverent.
Seeking with fingertips
a change in texture
that belies what's buried
asking for release.
Until,
(after many small acts
and much time has passed)
the beast sees light of day again--
and it is revealed that
love has overwritten fear
(enough)
to uncover the structures within,
all holey and holy.
Disabling
Caged by alarm,
this pulse carries deadweight.
A less than, but not nothing,
of potential energy.
Moving past grievances,
we find grief (and roll up our sleeves
for the delicate work ahead:
a stakeout,
a blaring,
a soothing,
repeat)
A catalog of hesitancies:
anxious glances,
guarded moments of unfurling,
tentative experiments
with lift and loft.
There is flight
(only occasionally at first).
Then there is soaring--
brilliant across the sky.