a word for meeting your dear friends’ kid
for the first time
who is already almost two
and even more captivating/endearing than in the photos
her almost constant brow furrow
not a sign of disgruntledness
but the sign of a looker and watcher and taker-inner
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unnamed phenomenon:
the feeling of hearing a young one (3 or younger)
saying your name for the first time
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found moodring
park-path discovered
and slipped onto the too small finger of an almost-two-year-old
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leftover unnamed phenomenon from a few days ago:
the disorientation/reorientation one experiences when connecting with people you normally see in the context of one city while both you and them are in the context of an entirely different city together
(for instance, when your san diego housemates just happen to be visiting portland when you are
and you meet each other at the bluffs)
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on a holland street porch in the sun patch
shiz and in with bowls of phone booth garden salad
in our hands
reorienting ourselves are the words i use
and what i really imagine is three orbits
recalibrating
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an offering
baby jar full of sugared golden plum guts
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monochromatic sledge says of our outfit trifecta
dusty rose (me), blues (shiz) and black (sledge)
while we circle up on the sidewalk
before several kinds of departure
(not to mention the matching stains)
garden tomato splotch (me), unknown but a postulation regarding menstrual blood (shiz), golden plum guts (sledge)
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toenail clippings on the floor under seat f24
how i notice them as i shove the little red backpack under the seat in front of me
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even through this tiny window on this profane machine
portland still gives good sky
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what i’m guessing might be smoke
from the colockum tarps fire
mixing with clouds as we take to sky
how it seems to take the shape of a kind of cascading over cloudshelf
and looking like waterfalls and mist
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everyone in denver is looking at my text tattoo
craning heads around and leaning in
but a lot of them are smiling back at me
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kindof corporate-ish but also fantastic i say
about my experience of the celestial seasonings factory tour i went on years ago
sounds like denver barker replies
and we are already laughing in the airport pickup zone
about the spf 50 spray
tucked into the car door pockets
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from the water world:
Oil from a leaking offshore pipeline has reached a beach on the popular tourist island of Ko Samet in Thailand. Here Thai navy personnel attempt to clean up. -bbc news, day in photos
Workers remove crude oil during a clean up operation on the beach of Prao Bay on Samet Island in Rayong province, eastern Thailand. About 50,000 liters (13,200 gallons) of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline operated by PTT Global Chemical Plc, has reached the popular tourist island in the country’s eastern sea despite continuous attempts to clean it up. –voice of america, day in photos
Sailboats compete in the 32th edition of the Copa del Rey regatta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. –voice of america, day in photos
Bangladeshi children cool off at Mohammadpur Geneva camp, one of the largest refugee camps in Dhaka City. -voice of america, day in photos
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