assortments

so, in spite of my best efforts i, unfortunately did not accomplish much last week. instead, i got a kidney infection.

boo.

on the up side, i have been writing quite a bit. need to get my taxes done tonight (i know, i know: down to the wire), but i have them basically figured out. may be going to see grindhouse as well provided it all gets done in a timely manner.

and here, for the adorable kat who proposed a challenge: use alluvial soil in a poem. and just for that...she makes a cameo (what can i say? i love write-off challenges). without further ado: my alluvial soil poem.

Rain on Umbrellas

Sounds like static electricity
Little gunshots firing at my eyes
Hoping to sting, hiss, bite,
But deflected by plain
Rubber (my skin too rough
To touch, too slippery).
At night it threatens stars
(truth be told) digging the
Alluvial soil that kate yearns
To nourish calilies. Instead
They drown. And stars—slightly
Embarrassed—hide behind the
darkest clouds (I umbrella my face,
standing like a mushroom at the sound of
A footstep).
And in the evening
It's boisterous, alluring
Looming and longing
To matter, wanting to echo
(your words never cease
to play haunted harpsichord
melodies), my heart, my neurons:
always synapsing sparks like
supernovas in the firmament
unobserved.