Monthly Archives: April 2011

Perth, Australia

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I pressed firmly into my seat, as the massive jet slipped gravity.  At 300 kilometers per hour, the runway in Melbourne fell away, music already in my ears, companionless as usual.  We banked hard to the west, rising above the … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Alone on a Roof

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

What more could I want? I have the unchained sounds of the wind brushing through the bare trees.  And the sky just pushes by on their way somewhere south of here.  It’s very quiet except the sounds of the winds … Continue reading →

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Walking My Dog “Memory”

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Interesting – as everything is coming into the harbor and some things will make it to their slips, others will crash against the rocks, others will just turn around and head back out to sea. Meanwhile, all is adrift. Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Lines in the Sand

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sleepy words awakenLike a stirred morning child,Wincing through lashes at clarityBetwixt dreams and noises outside. They skip through their daysSlipping from graspOf convention, imagination,Institution, alas Like clay, paper, and notesThey become idle matter for craftUntil love cast the canvasThe artists, at last As … Continue reading →

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Strange Numb World

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Like a once broken promise, she came to meOut of my past, across forever seascasting her truth into the furrows of dreamsSewing intimate seeds that hushed the screams And unsolved riddles of throttling fearThat one day next, hope would not get … Continue reading →

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Seasoning

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

If silence and solitude were to have weight they’d account for these hills, held fast in place. Which draw a chill from this glaucous sky, into fleeting cold winds, pulling tears from my eyes. Chimney smoke mingles above the roof … Continue reading →

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Boat Called Rock Bottom

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Why would anyone set sail on a boat called “Rock Bottom” Yet here I am… The sky winked a few times the day spilled slowly and steadily out over the horizon. Millions of people cursed it, loved it, or wished … Continue reading →

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The Itinerant Lover

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

It doesn’t fail It always leads us by the hand Faster and faster pinching into the folds of night And we let it slip through our fingers And watch it run ahead, disappearing in the darkness, Leaving us itinerant, under … Continue reading →

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Biography

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I grew up with this drive…and sometimes it was a band (skynrd, molly hatchet, journey, REO, 38 special, Dead, Rush, YES)…it was an event, fast ride, beer cans, woods, a camaro…a house party, bon fire, south jersey shore and wooded … Continue reading →

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Off Urban Rap

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’m not drunk, maybe besotted, maundering, inebriate savant but ne’er  vapid.I’m loquacious, beset on periphrasis, riddled with circumlocution, and bullets from the execution.A scribbler of belletristic prose, with a dent on my nose.  I’m a fallen saint.  I’m like peeling … Continue reading →

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