Lime-light

In the category of odd and unusual, A Lion Was Learning to Ski by Ranjit Bolt was published earlier this month.  This book of limericks was reviewed by the Guardian here.

No matter what reviewers say
If you're having an occasional off day
This verse does draw a smile,
Only seldom reviles
And leaves you with a jingle to stay.

A Week in Review (Poem from the car I*)

Fried plantains and Lima beans
Fourteen hours in the car and airplane crash dreams.

Two fires but there wasn't any heat
After all this work, my spirit's just beat.

A meeting about happiness and strangers wept
I wondered if my story had any depth

Sadness instead hangs in the air.
It's a little overwhelming when you can go anywhere.

*Recorded on voice note while driving, Friday the 20th of November.

A Pause

This week has been one longJames Joyce sentence.  It's missed more than a few "," at least one "." and left me instead with a few "?!".

So tonight after my thrice interrupted dinner of meatloaf and cake, I had a little reading water and reveled that I have nearly gone a full year without taking down my two metallic red Christmas trees.

Pause?  Sometimes.

Full Stop?  Unlikely.

Beginning (Again)

Once upon a time I used to write over here, and I did that for about six years until I thought I was done.

I'm not done.  I was just a little distracted with life and the pursuit of happiness.

Somewhere between May and November, I found liberty.

And so here I am.

Writing again.