ecstatic states and wistfulness
confer upon yourself license to revel in those enjoyable moments overlook (in those moments) the transient nature of bliss lest you abandon your ecstatic state and become wistful photo ? 2011 Sarah Landolt
Nakia Henry
we're all creators. you don't have to be a painter, writer, sculptor, dancer, photographer (you get the drift) to be "creative." of course, it's an ongoing process but keep discovering you and then be. find out how potent you really are. this goes...
remember that one time?
...when, absent assurances--you believed you could? it wasn't really one time (one incident)--it was a way of life. that time, i mean. but i watched you play it safe and watched you grow more nervous. more apprehensive and insecure. and i saw you ...
more ways than one
i never went to the ends of the earth for anything but i've gone beyond the boundaries of reason for most everything never pursued so much as i've been led this is no way to choose for one's self but the only way to be never placed limits on mysel...
Gert said
back in 2003 i had a conversation with Grandma Gert about my sister. my tone was judgmental. Gert said,"Yahya, when you know who you're dealing with you're never disappointed in them."
you don’t know what love is
but you know what a tree is you know that what you think of a tree has no bearing on what it is and you don't love only one of its leaves you never differentiate its leaves or do you? have you ever looked at a tree then decided on its most preciou...
i shouldn’t have left you
it's been a long time. i feel strong and my blood still burns--now more than usual. and i still have no idea. i just follow voices. i'm full of fire. even when i begin to doubt. but this is always the logic brain working to convince me that inspir...
love deluxe
if you don't care for Sade or her music, stop reading now. anyway, another milestone scratched off the list. finally got to see Sade in concert after coming up lame the last couple times she toured. which is not often. so i was in the place to be ...
blow time away
i savor this cigarette cigarette is the momentboth toxic, temporary tourists exploit the late April sun photograph one another before the fountain in the square moments etched in synthetic permanence the bell of a cycle peals upstaged by gongs fro...
muse hallucinogen
the mountain range observes me at a safe removebehind mistobscuredi brood wordlesslyyetto the inanimate--audiblystatic night airabsent windeavesdropping trees sway notand contribute nothingsavequietude's odd offeringsa reflective spacea penitentia...