briefly

Sorry for the radio silence the past week or so. School started up again and I've been very busy with that as well as rediscovering what it's like to have a regular social life. Also, I had an incredibly profound experience this past Saturday that I am still processing and it will take a little while longer before I'll have it sorted out. Some of you who are my close friends already know what I'm talking about. As a result, I've been drawing almost nonstop (for instance, I skipped class today to work on a drawing) so look forward to more of my artwork being posted in the near future.

On a different note, I hope you all of you New Yorkers/East Coasters are enjoying the transition to Fall. I know I am. It is my favorite season, and there is little I love more than the crisp smell of leaves and the chill of a cool breeze stroking my cheeks.

See you all soon, before the trees are bare of leaves.

Seven Eleven Oh Eight

My head is reeling

I savor pomegranate kisses
From Hades mounted
Rearing and riding forth
From the mouth of a shadow land

These days I hardly recognize myself.

Startling moments of clarity that feel like

waking into someone else's life

And yet
Each day I awake
In my own skin
Brimming with hollow memories
Of a person transforming

Recollections of someone I'll never be again

I nearly missed my stop.


(As I walked home from the train, in one hand I held a cigarette, and with the other I scribbled on my left arm, wallowing in joy

"I thank the universe I'm alive".)