notes on home

To reside / to be inside / -side, -side / with nothing sad there / with something sad there / and said / thinned by language / or weighted down? // “There. I said it,” she said / as if it had been a key she’d been hesitant to hand over / but then was made to // has a taint / to it / dirty now / a haze / a haint / one who haunts / halo-less / hollowed lass / hums as lights hum // hum an hum / an hum an / human // home is a hue / huge is a size / abuse is a word / in your huge vocabulary // shy away from chug chug and all that chiding / words make holes in us / their own homes / rabbits, rabbits / birthing throughout me / sailing happy birthday happy birthday / each day / toward some part (sum and part) of me / under my breath // some part of me covered by a tarp of breath / little more / breath-trap / party / —of breath / —of one


[Seitan Piccata from Candle 79 Cookbook over excessively creamed spinach]

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"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties." -- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood. There are two new Djunas in Tucson, babies both.