one day you will be a king

Leonidas, Longshanks, left for dead.

(Even Braque was once confused)

Kings bartered like chocolate and play-me-skiffs.

Hobbies for the worms

tunneling into an elected heart.

There's only one way to go from here folks.

glory days

every day is a glory day, i whispered.

after a short silence, my pillow repeated softly,
"evry day ith glorrry."

and I began to cry.

starts with b

Do you remember what I said we need more of?

in training

Maze of furniture.

Downtown Stamford, Connecticut

again

 

again. 

a spark-bite taken out of darkness.

heart's flint rubbing against you.

the first firefly of the season

lights his beacon

again.

anniversary +1

 

It stands for
"a considerable stretch of prose that has been omitted."

So they say.

  

I have a different theory.  I believe it is shorthand for rest in peace, sans letters, for the passing of a mutually understood thought.  A memorial to like minds and a noble abandonment of soon-to-be antiquated verbal and written speak.

dot dot dot.

Nostalgia

So easy.
To live in the past.
The recent past. The recent, torrid, wonderful, sinewy take no prisoner blood-on-blood if-you-think-you-are-everything-then-what-news-is-your-suicide past.

Nostalgia is our hot-tub.