Category Archives: character sketch

Last Nights “Best Used By” Date

Posted on September 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

These days, the “sell by” date dictates the menu for my morning meal. The next torpedo through the torpor will be the sound of last nights unfinished dinner scraped into the centrifuge of my garbage disposal; separating hardened gruel into … Continue reading →

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Love Ballad of My Generation

Posted on September 14, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Those days recall less colors and even less sense With longer hair like Jackson Browne, Pensively reeling in half rhymed ballads walkin’ like Dylan and shredding our voices like Springsteen. “walkin’ real loud…” When poets sang and singers Listened, from … 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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Waiting for Dr. Robbins

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

Absorbed with his iPAD, I’m fixated on his movements; scratching his nose, the glide of his finger over the touch screen.  My son’s shirt is exactly the same color and intensity of the indigo fish that are twitching in the micro-currents … Continue reading →

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Shift

Posted on August 29, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

A note to Peter, whom I met through nothing less or more than art.  “These encounters always provide some trace of ‘shift.’  We’re all given minute and subtle chances to achieve some prodigious schemes. So I tend to leave no … Continue reading →

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Dusty Gates of Hope (Gaza)

Posted on August 1, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Gazing at the gates of hope in the lens of my camera. This, his expression, upon seeing his own reflection. In anguish, he asks, “Is this another check point, Beyond which I’ll never pass?” I gazed at the gates of … Continue reading →

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Facts and Human Nature

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

Facts are vulnerable to the spin of opinion, an infectious bother at times, but ironically necessary. I leverage facts for better judgement of opinions. Mine and others. Facts have a better casual impact on judgement, opinions more reactive. Facts conflict … Continue reading →

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Raw Hands (Palestine)

Posted on July 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Child unearthed alive after buried in Gaza by Israeli air bombardment. After a “warning bomb” through your roof, you are given 58 seconds to run, and 8 minutes to dig your child out from the rubble.  The completely buried child’s … Continue reading →

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Bliss is a Master of Disguise

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Every story is story within a story. And clarity doesn’t come while in lotus position, chanting in dhikr, near death experiences, or love making (although the latter two can be faintly indistinguishable) Rather, it is not just in the “doing” … Continue reading →

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