Today was my 20th ride of the year… not all that fantastic considering I started riding over 2 months ago (in fact, it is getting awfully close to 3), but comparing to last year I am way ahead of the game.
So far I haven’t been able to break the 3 rides in a week barrier, but it hasn’t been for lack of trying.
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soft frozen frame
slow-motion explosion
wisps and rays in synchronous flare
angel-wing mist amberly creeping
in a glacier-fast jettison
over stale-blood mahoganies, full tired violets, deceased navies
silhouetted broken toothed shoreline
a holy volcanic-glow filling
the tight hanging cloudline
lifting up an eccentric snaking gray
a gull, primordial black from my vantage
alights onto a rock as dark
the horizon shifts unnoticeably
momentarily feather and stone merge
a geometrically awkward natural unity
pulse of vein and water
into oblong bands of ochre, jaundice, and mountain
now like thick strips of bright burning kleenex
calm wetness ripples crimson
in response
the bird now gone
crisp salty breeze warms my skin
and i smile
summer 1999
only 3 posts so far for May?
I guess it is up to me to shake the dust off this place and post something.
so what do I talk about?
hmmm…
I’ll be back later with something more to say… and by that I mean something people might actually want to read.