Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!
prose
Illusions
Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.
Revenant
O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.
Awake & alone
Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.
To Kopke & Ashley
I like odd numbers — and the odder, the better.
Pink pony
“Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven’t thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.”
—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Keys to happiness
“The key to happiness is pretty much the same as the key to worry and anxiety — you must learn to make a big deal out of nothing.”
“The key to happiness? Simple really. You don’t let short-term concerns ruin your life, and you don’t let long-term concerns ruin your day.”
—Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Poet’s id
Two most important things in a writer’s wallet: library card and
Phoenix sunrise
the seam between desert and night
glows pastel to neon to clear blue light
Homeward
Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much we can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.
Book-sticky
“Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.”
—Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, 2006
So easy, so hard
My poems are love-drunk letters to the universe.
Sky was the limit
“When men grow wings, they will be worse thieves than ever.”
“Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”