Monday, June 30, 2008

and the living is easy...


summer is here!

in celebration, a list of my coming goals:


-crank up the music and crank down the windows in my car

-road trip (charleston, nashville, atlanta, oh my)!

-girls' camping trips

-stay up late to watch how i met your mother reruns

-sneak out in the dark to sit in the gazebo

-drive the backroads to sonics in the middle of the night

-break my record of seeing two baseball games in one summer

-swim!

-eat the strawberries growing on my deck

-ooooh, and watermelon! (not from the deck)

-take mountain hikes through the rhododendron coves with alfred

-plan a secret trip to minnesota

-stay awake until the sun comes up

-have a grill out

-see as many outdoor concerts as possible


-make some extra money (and in the mean time spy on more craigslist ads)

-knit nonsex specific baby clothes and consult on mountain wedding locations for friends

-Batman!

-have an early morning coffee under the magnolia tree at flat rock bakery

-make cranberry-pineapple popcicles

Saturday, June 14, 2008

i am trying to break your heart

What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Whatever it is, it avails not--distance avails not, and place avails not,
I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine...
Walt Whitman

my heart is constricted, i can't breathe, i am back in Brooklyn.
i've missed the salty air, the quickened pace, the beautiful people,
the winks and smiles while rounding lips sound out vowels heard nowhere else.
my heart lifts and hangs heavy in rhythm with the Narrows.
i love you...i REPEAT--i love you, but alas, i can't stay.
the last week has been one of many important conclusions,
but they'll remain quietly ours.