Category Archives: vignette

The Outlands

Posted on December 8, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

The back country landscape is sliced open right down its center.  Panning left and right, I see things slipping by either side of me as I drive this truck through the outlands.  Imagine me; walking the trellis lengths of this winter vineyard, only … Continue reading →

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Aranyhid

Posted on November 9, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

All of humanity is a scintillating ocean; a never ending twinkling of sunlight, without which there is neither darkness, nor light. Each ray sent is a soul dispatched, each ripple is a life awaiting, each quick sparkling on the corrugated … Continue reading →

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The Rind of Love

Posted on November 6, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

For every fruit, bitter and sweet, is the rind. So it goes for every human. And we twist and peel at their external visage and feast upon their essence until dried and withered. Then in our wanting despondency, we cast … Continue reading →

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Matt’s Rancho Martinez

Posted on August 25, 2015 by skipavm@gmail.com

I was sitting at Matt’s Rancho Martinez outside Dallas.  I caught the blurr of a waiter zooming by with shots on his tray.  It’s a loud place – reminds me of the echoing noise of my grade school gymnasiums I guess. … Continue reading →

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I will forever see you soon

Posted on October 5, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I thought all morning about his life coming to an end During the oddly undaunted progress of day I thought of how I might say goodbye to him Imagining a reply in traces of dry breath Surrendered by a swollen … Continue reading →

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Restless Milieu

Posted on September 24, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I went to bed with a bad memory All night it kept kicking me in the heart In the morning when we woke neither of us felt we got any rest tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Lovely Dreaming Foxes (extended version)

Posted on September 22, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

LDF first appeared on http://www.rebellesociety.com/2012/11/04/lovely-dreaming-foxes/ See Rebel Society for more great poetry I grab the key, attached by a lace of leather to a foot long piece of restoration wood.  I look up at the wall behind the counter. It’s 1955. … Continue reading →

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Glowering Junkies

Posted on September 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A glowering beat junkie shuffles frayed hems over avenue I, propped up preened, through the door he trips, to find a pew All this, I watch with a dour view Down in a beanery where souls are served coffee with … Continue reading →

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Hibiscus Dreams

Posted on September 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

She’s underhand throwing words with her mouth The boy leans in past natural borders, to study the agenda in her eyes He is built like a bent paperclip, with bottlebrush forelocks, a barracuda jaw. Between her bare legs, she gently … Continue reading →

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Glowing is like falling out of darkness

Posted on September 10, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

An old friend Carl Richardson) posted this quote by apparently an unknown author, “…you see the true color of a person when you are no longer beneficial in their life…” Rather than traipsing through the jaded past, this set me … Continue reading →

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