Some of these are kinda poems.
1.
We, the walkers through snow,
yeah, we smile at each other.
2.
When light rain falls onto snow, it can be heard but not seen. Just a kind of hum, or a crackle. Static-y. It doesn't patter. It's a consistent sound, that doesn't pulse and doesn't fluctuate in pitch. It's as if silence is actually a noise, but one we normally don't hear because it's played so low, but now the volume has just been turned up: a kind of nothingness noise, all around. It makes me think there is some large spirit suspended in the air, the god of Medford maybe, saying "shhhh", or maybe he's just really tired.
3.
Every now and then
a little abandoned glove.
"How does this happen?"
4. A variation on a theme of Zach Weichbrodt's
Slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush, slush.
5.
A person has walked here, going that way.
Several people have walked over there.
A few people walked here a while ago.
Nobody has walked here recently.
A person has walked here.
A car went through here.
Lots and lots of people go that way.
OH SHIT A DOG HAS BEEN HERE. PAW PRINTS. DOGGIE DOGGIE!!!
1.12.2011
"SNOW"
Boston is currently experiencing a "snow storm".
I woke up this morning and looked out my window to see "everything" covered in a "blanket" of snow.
It's "around" 68 degrees in my room, and "around" 30 degrees outside.
My windows "don't know what to do".
Given my lay-observations, there are two "kinds" of snow falling.
The first is what I think are called "snowflakes".
They fall as snow "bits"; you can "make out" individual "flakes" "zipping around".
The second looks like a mist, appearing as a single nebulous "organism" "flowing" on the "current of the wind".
I have a "theory" about where the "misty" snow comes from.
After "flaky" snow "bits" fall onto a surface, such as a tree branch or a roof, "blanketing" it, if this "blankie" is ruffled or dislodged by wind (or something else?), then mist poofs up. And this mist can be "carried off" by the wind in the form of "misty" snow.
Snow "makes" the "belief in" wind easier.
It "makes evident" the wind's "behavior".
Apparently, the police can "declare" in some official way that it is "snowing".
If the police "declare" that it is "snowing", then different snow-specific traffic laws are made operative.
These laws include rules about where people can park their cars.
If you don't know whether it's been "declared", you can call the cops to ask.
I like the "image" of someone calling the cops, looking outside their window at this "blizzard", and asking "Hi: is it snowing?".
I woke up this morning and looked out my window to see "everything" covered in a "blanket" of snow.
It's "around" 68 degrees in my room, and "around" 30 degrees outside.
My windows "don't know what to do".
Given my lay-observations, there are two "kinds" of snow falling.
The first is what I think are called "snowflakes".
They fall as snow "bits"; you can "make out" individual "flakes" "zipping around".
The second looks like a mist, appearing as a single nebulous "organism" "flowing" on the "current of the wind".
I have a "theory" about where the "misty" snow comes from.
After "flaky" snow "bits" fall onto a surface, such as a tree branch or a roof, "blanketing" it, if this "blankie" is ruffled or dislodged by wind (or something else?), then mist poofs up. And this mist can be "carried off" by the wind in the form of "misty" snow.
Snow "makes" the "belief in" wind easier.
It "makes evident" the wind's "behavior".
Apparently, the police can "declare" in some official way that it is "snowing".
If the police "declare" that it is "snowing", then different snow-specific traffic laws are made operative.
These laws include rules about where people can park their cars.
If you don't know whether it's been "declared", you can call the cops to ask.
I like the "image" of someone calling the cops, looking outside their window at this "blizzard", and asking "Hi: is it snowing?".
1.08.2011
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