dixyland

merry christmas eve

missdixy — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:11:58 +0000

My first Christmas Eve away from home was made so much more bearable thanks to Skype. Oh technology! What a sweet, wonderful thing.

birthday party

missdixy — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:14:52 +0000

allan’s birthday party, 2007, shortly before i left town and was no longer around for his birthdays.

100words: poem #2

missdixy — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:16:09 +0000

you, so silent and so loud
[all at once]
like no one’s ever had the
courage of being

your knowing smile,
your soft, quick touches –
giving me hope and
a fleeting glimpse of life,
reminding me so subtly that
even now, after all the broken hearts
and long, trying nights,
i still give my heart away too easily.

you make me feel the way the sun must feel,
extraordinary, brilliant,
an important part of all that is beauty and alive

but I’m well aware that days change,
suns set, moments pass,
and at the end of it all – I’m not.

December 2011

100 words: a poem [2010]

missdixy — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:14:58 +0000

What a
Beauty, he told her
stroked her hair, held
her hand, touched her
cheek.
promised the air, the dirt
all to her
over and over
and over
again
until finally,
she believed him.

but make no
mistake,
there was never any single
simple
thing about it
set in stone.
it was always
up
and
d
o
w
n
with them, like
the all of us

and we believed
because it
was all we could do;
we believed
because
we so longed
to

at least, until he
left, saying
“you’ve lost
every bit
of what I
ever
loved in you”

2010