silent nestbox
one chickadee didn’t fledge
I bury him in his nest
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On this day in...
- 2011: Among the Ruins of Stars — mercury drops rolling through palms faster than setting summer stars whose ancestors shed the iron in our blood follow the electrons to noble gasses follow the moon-eyed smiler to [...]
- 2010: I’ll Race the Fiercest Gulls — How much time could you borrow to put off the moment when you’ll go tomorrow? The sound of earthquakes will reverberate across saffron-tinged [...]
- 2010: Greenish — I write with a pencil that used to be blue jeans, a pen that once, was trash. Coiled light bulbs everywhere whitewash coal, fluoresce the dim [...]
- 2010: The Lost Book Club: The Chosen — One of my favorite episodes from Season 6 of Lost was “Dr. Linus,” which was the first one that made [...]
- 2007: Weakened Hound Blogging: Home — They’re tired, but everyone is doing much better after this week’s ordeal. —Want to make a fast friend by saving a [...]
- 2006: Uhhh, Like Housekeeping and Stuff — One of the many fun things about blogging is tinkering with the blog and in the process learning a bit [...]
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