I love making the coffee and thinking of my grandmother.
I love how a kitchen light can be
the only light in the house,
and a clock the only sound.
I used to wake to it.
Now I make it for others.
Author Archives: Timothy P. Schilling
Autumn gate
What the Dutch know (signs in the park)
Don’t let children pee in the water.
Only clean butts in the pool.
September song
Note to self re. purgatory
Don’t leave too much to burn off at the end.
Still ahead: Kirk sleeps with space women
A weightless tango devolves
to a postcoital dreamless state.
Brain stars circle and dust showers collide.
Monstrance
Saint Moonbeam (The alternate-reality, better version
Jerry Brown meets Linda Rondstadt when he’s still in the Jesuit seminary, see. Jerry wants to drop out, but Linda is overwhelmed. She writes “Different Drum” and breaks his heart. Jerry recovers and eventually becomes Pope. Linda realizes (too late) he was the great love of her life. She sings “Long, Long Time” and pines (really pines).
The days disappear like waves
Dreaming my way to you
For all your roads you’ve left
no one real one,
just this scent and broken twig
and heady subjugation.
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