That that that which
When when where after when
With forever with with now
The Ways and Means Committee
Things come to mind
Days go by and you're standing there and I'm sitting here and all around us the flowers
I could feel the air hit my eyes when I got off the train this morning
I'm always trying to tell you what I mean
I have days and you have days
Car batteries are a thing
Just like Sunday and Threat Levels and Barbara Streisand
We can put thing in rows or boxes or matrices
I really don't care
What's gonna work for you?
What makes what scenes what fellows
I'd pay just as much for my phone if it was just the map and that's it
April 12, 2017
April 11, 2017
Even in This, We Are Wonder
Just one hand
A pen cap and other artifacts
Cradles, kitchens, nations
A line of lights and another in paint
A third of people
A fifth of gin
This monkey, that steering wheel
Biomass vs. ballast, take your pick
Stand here
Eyes up, but used up
Tie a string to it and call it a day
Let it all run out
Watch the ocean become the sky become the sand become the sea
Or something like that
You're the box and the prize and the mouth and the peanuts
And this is the dream where we forgive you
A pen cap and other artifacts
Cradles, kitchens, nations
A line of lights and another in paint
A third of people
A fifth of gin
This monkey, that steering wheel
Biomass vs. ballast, take your pick
Stand here
Eyes up, but used up
Tie a string to it and call it a day
Let it all run out
Watch the ocean become the sky become the sand become the sea
Or something like that
You're the box and the prize and the mouth and the peanuts
And this is the dream where we forgive you
April 10, 2017
Sideways Through Forgotten Slips
You can only see the four legs of the water tower from where you're sitting, and they're painted at angles
The Earth doesn't turn under you -- we're all turning together
You were born to platforms and parking lots
A reservoir? Don't be scared
You'll always find something bigger and something smaller
Something better and something worse
Every moment a center
Every moment an edge
You can build a wall of becauses and you still won't have gotten anywhere
All the thing you'll want
All the things you'll run across your teeth
The Earth doesn't turn under you -- we're all turning together
You were born to platforms and parking lots
A reservoir? Don't be scared
You'll always find something bigger and something smaller
Something better and something worse
Every moment a center
Every moment an edge
You can build a wall of becauses and you still won't have gotten anywhere
All the thing you'll want
All the things you'll run across your teeth
April 9, 2017
It's All Folk Music Ever After
Because you work with what's in front of you
Because it's all journalism
It's all dictation
It's all in your head
It's all reception
Because it's all perspective
Because you're a kid that drew the city corner or down the boulevard
Because rulers and then compasses and then protractors
Stencils and how-tos and how's today?
What's the first mistake you remember?
And the first time you tried something on only to realize that wasn't you?
Because the delete key is always at the ready
Because auto-correct is your friend most the time so much so you don't even notice it
And the sirens breaks down
The warnings wear out
The sun hangs in the sky and advertises a warmer day on the other side
But the wind is whipping
The lambs are somewhere
And there's your reflection
Because it's all journalism
It's all dictation
It's all in your head
It's all reception
Because it's all perspective
Because you're a kid that drew the city corner or down the boulevard
Because rulers and then compasses and then protractors
Stencils and how-tos and how's today?
What's the first mistake you remember?
And the first time you tried something on only to realize that wasn't you?
Because the delete key is always at the ready
Because auto-correct is your friend most the time so much so you don't even notice it
And the sirens breaks down
The warnings wear out
The sun hangs in the sky and advertises a warmer day on the other side
But the wind is whipping
The lambs are somewhere
And there's your reflection
Location:Rokeby Rd,Baltimore,United States
April 8, 2017
Absent the Tools
Low and latter days
Later ladders lift you up
The turn, the last push, much more
Sunshine, emails sent, shush
Your finger traces the edge
The wrong number but the right town
What they mean when they say "hometown"
Stacks and stacks of advantages
That place on the hill where you see it all
That time of day you love most
All the things that come to you and here they come
Later ladders lift you up
The turn, the last push, much more
Sunshine, emails sent, shush
Your finger traces the edge
The wrong number but the right town
What they mean when they say "hometown"
Stacks and stacks of advantages
That place on the hill where you see it all
That time of day you love most
All the things that come to you and here they come
Location:Dryden Dr,Baltimore,United States
April 7, 2017
What Your Remember When You Remember
Darkened windows all the way around
An oversized orange shopping bag
Knitting time together and away
Carts, cards, cardamom, carried away
Clouds in ribbons
Minutes or moments, doesn't matter
What's young is young again
And moving left
And checking the mail
And making all kinds of promises
Gravel does what gravels gonna do
When the rain comes down
An oversized orange shopping bag
Knitting time together and away
Carts, cards, cardamom, carried away
Clouds in ribbons
Minutes or moments, doesn't matter
What's young is young again
And moving left
And checking the mail
And making all kinds of promises
Gravel does what gravels gonna do
When the rain comes down
Location:US-50 E,Hyattsville,United States
April 6, 2017
Action, Scales, Hues, Returns
How Brits say garage
Your first Nintendo
Frozen garbage
Pace and pacing
Bullets that glow
Intended outcomes
Rainbow sherbet
The Volkswagen Bug and the Bus, too
When the sky doesn't even look real
Tiny tiny films
What comes after what
The way a train slows
Fish in a river
High notes
Noontime napping
Nail files and more
Your first Nintendo
Frozen garbage
Pace and pacing
Bullets that glow
Intended outcomes
Rainbow sherbet
The Volkswagen Bug and the Bus, too
When the sky doesn't even look real
Tiny tiny films
What comes after what
The way a train slows
Fish in a river
High notes
Noontime napping
Nail files and more
Location:Range Rd,Odenton,United States
April 5, 2017
Travel Ritual Poem #3
When in doubt
When looking out a window
As one put upon to put it on the altar
As anger, as bloodshed, as long as you're asking
What voices and interruptions and meaning it when it matters
What averages, what wandering, what wonder
And they beg pardon or indifference
And then silenced at the border.
Every day finds its end
Every echo finds a cliff
Conserve your energy, the clouds are gathering
When looking out a window
As one put upon to put it on the altar
As anger, as bloodshed, as long as you're asking
What voices and interruptions and meaning it when it matters
What averages, what wandering, what wonder
And they beg pardon or indifference
And then silenced at the border.
Every day finds its end
Every echo finds a cliff
Conserve your energy, the clouds are gathering
Location:H St NE,Washington,United States
April 4, 2017
Something Like Swimming Lessons from the Last Person that Should Be Giving Them
There is an Angry God
But that doesn't make it your Angry God
There are days in every week
There are sayings and doors and all manner of vestibules
There are diamonds balanced just so
And rocks that will guide you home
There are helpful birds and hateful birds and bitter birds
Dead deer carcasses on the side of the road
Highways everywhere
The sun, the rain, everything green
Today and today and today and today
Get a grip on anything and tell us you are here
I am here
I am here
But that doesn't make it your Angry God
There are days in every week
There are sayings and doors and all manner of vestibules
There are diamonds balanced just so
And rocks that will guide you home
There are helpful birds and hateful birds and bitter birds
Dead deer carcasses on the side of the road
Highways everywhere
The sun, the rain, everything green
Today and today and today and today
Get a grip on anything and tell us you are here
I am here
I am here
April 3, 2017
Found Desk Poem 4/3/17 (Opening Day, Camden Yards)
Thanks to Ryan Walker
We did what we had to to make the sound we needed
We climbed the sunshine
We forgot our names
All things much open outward and upward or die
Stack up the day where you can see it
Everything is the first here
Everything is dipped in the moment
Everything is in the book and by the book
Like what you heard about Inuit, we should have 40 different words to take us from want to need as the sun sets on bedroom communities across the land
Somewhere someone is praying for something
Say goodbye to the things that brought us together
We did what we had to to make the sound we needed
We climbed the sunshine
We forgot our names
All things much open outward and upward or die
Stack up the day where you can see it
Everything is the first here
Everything is dipped in the moment
Everything is in the book and by the book
Like what you heard about Inuit, we should have 40 different words to take us from want to need as the sun sets on bedroom communities across the land
Somewhere someone is praying for something
Say goodbye to the things that brought us together
April 2, 2017
I Don't Want to Waste It
what's the matter what matters it doesn't matter
to who to his is great greater sounds
the world warped and warded
on as in onward in as in inward inland inlet integers and then the magic parts
set the pins up
sign in vs. sign on
certain cities and certainty
celebrate and celebrations
certain cinders
because one thought won't line up with another
and the sun still sets
to who to his is great greater sounds
the world warped and warded
on as in onward in as in inward inland inlet integers and then the magic parts
set the pins up
sign in vs. sign on
certain cities and certainty
celebrate and celebrations
certain cinders
because one thought won't line up with another
and the sun still sets
April 1, 2017
Look Closely Looking Too Close
All the sounds in all the places
Meet up with what's what or
Walk into a bar or what have you vs.
Even though even while
The things you burn when you're cold
The things you take with you when you take
The things the things the things most of all
That which when something
That core that if if when withdrawn
That that which when which do you see see
Oh say
Oh say it ain't so
It's spring and even the puddles are drowning
Look to all the excuses laid out to the horizon
I say coast, you say potato
Let's go get ice cream
It ain't gonna get any better than this
Meet up with what's what or
Walk into a bar or what have you vs.
Even though even while
The things you burn when you're cold
The things you take with you when you take
The things the things the things most of all
That which when something
That core that if if when withdrawn
That that which when which do you see see
Oh say
Oh say it ain't so
It's spring and even the puddles are drowning
Look to all the excuses laid out to the horizon
I say coast, you say potato
Let's go get ice cream
It ain't gonna get any better than this
Location:Jefferson Ave,Towson,United States
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