I WANT TO BE HOOOOOOOME

I was born on a naval airbase in Falmouth, MA on the cape. My dad was a Marine. You always are a Marine when you’re a Marine until you’ve passed than then you were a Marine.

That’s like 56 miles from here, but I’m not home.

I lived on South Weymouth Naval Airbase, also on Mass, from 2 to like 5 — I’m too tired to Google whether that base is closed or not. I saw Close Encounters and Star Wars there. My mom got this cool turkey trophy for bowling a turkey in her league. A kid bit me in the eye and got held back from kindergarten — I pushed him off the top of the jungle gym when he bit me. The Blizzard of 76 was amazing. I went under a moving car riding on a skateboard on my belly. My mom’s friend gave me my first drag of a cigarette. I survived both of these.

Then we were in East Bridgewater until I was 11 or 12. I had some good friends there — and actually stayed with one of them for the summer past when we moved to Virginia.

I lived in Sterling, VA until I went to college. High school was high school and I spent a lot of time going between crowds, avoiding violence and trying to get with the ladies. Moderate success on all fronts. I wrestled in high school and developed this big thick neck in the process that would atrophy over four years of college.

I’m too worn out today to see all this through, but suffice to say Home is a weird and complicated thing for me.

After 15 years, maybe Baltimore is the first hometown I’ve ever felt. Maybe not.

See you soon.

Location:Dartmouth St,Boston,United States

The Murmur Indoors

Like dust and corners

A draft, your skin, the people that came after

Softly treading prior-trampled undergrowth

The silent work of sheep in pasture

The path stars etch into the sky

Everywhere, eyelids

Location:Glen Allen Dr,Baltimore,United States

It’s a Trap

Thirteen Is on the Way to Twelve

Colors change from time to place

Falling asleep is just something you gotta do

Lichen to ferns to trees to grass both like and unlike the way Spring becomes Summer

Like unlike dislike dormant

We place are heads so many places, damn

All the things you hide until some day it just doesn’t matter

All the things in plain sight and all the planes and more

You feel time slipping away, but that’s a trick

You are here. You are here. You are here

Location:W 36th St,Baltimore,United States