—I CAN FEEL THE SUN SHINING ON YOUR SOUL

 

 

…In order to do this post, I was all prepared to trek on over to the library or Starbucks when a small miracle happened—the power and internet came back to life after a near 24-hour blackout.

All the hype about a “Bomb Cyclone” ravaging the area turned out to be accurate.

 

Branches broke free from the trees and landed on our power lines, which then sent them ablaze despite the torrent. I went out to check on the situation, standing under the havoc but slightly left of it when the loudest BANG I’ve ever heard in my life sent me almost reeling backward into a ravine.

 

The good news is I finished two books during that span, and started a third, “Since I Laid My Burden Down,” by Brontez Purnell which I am loving as much as I did his “100 Boyfriends.”

 

The other good—no wait, it’s actually great—news is that my new book should be coming out on Wednesday! What, what? Yep, if all goes well. I’ll post about it then.

 

I also wrote a lot of random stuff while the world was swirling outside my windows last night. Writing by lamplight is kind of fun… 

 

 

Damn the Weather

 

 this weather 

wants me dead

cedar seedlings  

flying sideways like 

copper whiskbrooms 

across the frightened lake 

and all I can do is hope 

the bomb cyclone misses 

you the way I do

it’s a sentimental churning 

of the senses that makes no 

sense given our track record

but I’ll still slip the album 

on the turntable anyway

watch it spin like a reboot 

listen to Lana sing 

All roads that lead to you

as the wind blows us out

the door down the road where 

trees land like cannons and 

mother nature takes her 

meat rare and bloody