I have to start with this painting just because it's one I'm partial to. I like Toulouse-Lautrec in general, but especially this painting. He painted it a few years after the Moulin Rouge opened in Paris. (Painted between 1892-1895, and Moulin opened in 1889).
Sunday, June 27, 2010
"At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I have to start with this painting just because it's one I'm partial to. I like Toulouse-Lautrec in general, but especially this painting. He painted it a few years after the Moulin Rouge opened in Paris. (Painted between 1892-1895, and Moulin opened in 1889).
Friday, June 25, 2010
rain. damn.
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i knew i shouldn't be texting him, but i said i couldn't believe i was spending my first rainy night in my new place without him. (i am learning that i say too much) (right now even, as i type).
that first night we spent together, it was raining and we sat on a blanket by the open sliding glass door, the screen was shut, and we listened to it rain and watched. it was so simple. i asked him before i joined him on the floor. there is a reason cliches are cliches.
and we laid down together. and i rubbed his back until he fell asleep. like a little boy. me, a mother. the one he didn't have.
he was so sad.
and then i went to my bed and slept alone like i always had.
and a few nights later, i would begin to forget what that was like altogether.
and on june 25, 2010, very late at night. i'm eating crackers to soak up the wine in my stomach and i want to cry. wait i just did. i cried. again. i'm so very very sick of crying. the prozac, what does it even do already? it doesn't even work anymore... already. i'm sick of crying in my car, in the bathroom at work, on my couch when king of the hill comes on, at the gym listening to that music. our music. "let me in, can i get a? i know you gonna let me shine and get mine, i'm the king, how you gonna act like that? etc etc etc" but what really gets to me, we all know the words, "i don't believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now. and all the roads we have to walk are winding. and all the lights that lead us there are blinding. there are many things that i would like to say to you, but i don't know how. because maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me. and after all, you're my wonderwall."
our song. a million songs are ours, but this is really our song. two pisces. i'll never do it again.
and i'll cry and go to sleep.
and he will never call.
and one day i'm supposed to be happy that i told him not to last night.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
idea
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
that moon.
Monday, May 17, 2010
the things i kept:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The beginning and end of a story I worked on this semester called "Pecos River"
By February, Cindy had lost her sense of humor. She was twenty-five and having her first break-up with her only love. She was on the highway back to her hometown, Carlsbad--a slow and brightly-lighted town full of Mexicans and cowboys and Mexican cowboys, a town that smelled of creosote in the morning, whose lament was made of mourning doves and creaking pecan branches. A modest river, the Pecos, crept through this place.
She grew up in a blue house next to the river which brought her many offerings. Her first vision of death was a rotting carp that baked in the grass. Her second vision was a bloated goose. When she was nine, she did not see it, but the Pecos offered a dead human body near the Bataan Bridge, according to her parents’ morning conversation one day. This river offered coins and rusted cans, a tire, a shopping cart, mosquitos, slimy bottles, and once when she rode her bike into the water, it offered back a young girl and her bicycle. This was her first and only attempt at suicide. It was the first of three waves of depression Cindy would have in her life. She was eleven.
The end:
The Pecos River really put on a show this time of day. At Lower Tansill Dam, the sun was setting as she parked her car and got out. The sky was cotton candy. It was fire. It was water and the river was the sky. They reflected onto each other in a great display of rainbow sherbet colors. Cindy began to jog along the bank of the river. She was almost to the Bataan Bridge when she spotted it. Her spirit was gliding in and out of the water. It had turned almost completely into water itself and wore a necklace of old bottles, rusted coins and fishbones around its neck. Cindy stopped and watched for a moment. It saw her watching and curled its scaly fingers at her. She smiled and decided to jog back to her car. It was time to meet her friend for dinner. She wasn’t exactly sure how she would get a hold of her spirit, but Cindy knew she wouldn’t leave this town again with out it.