Author Archives: Pearl

We are creatures of action and reaction. We have little choice but to react to our constraints even if we don’t know what they are consciously. It’s like responding to tone or body language. There’s an intuitive response. We learn to use what we have to work with. If conversationally we know we may be […]

This journal is languishing with my only putting up the subset of poems that I wrote which are not dreck, which may be of interest to others and yet cannot be sent to market immediately. Therefore I’m going to pad. ahem, that is expand my mandate. The thought is I will include what poetry I’m […]

transience the season of tangerine loose skin unacidic sweet flesh falling to nectar on the tongue has passed but coming is the apricot, the mango after this gap and the next

Written March 2005 based on the poem Where I’m From by George Ella Lyons via Fragments from Floyd. Tweaked to shorten and update today. (huuuuuuugely long and somewhat depressing but meh, another day, another crack at it with dawn instead of nightfall’s gathering darkness prevailing.) I’m from a township no longer named on maps Memory […]

one side of phone conversation ‘lo, uh-huh, m-hm, hmmmm, weh? yeah, sure, uhhhhh, k, heh heh, nyah, aaaaah, nya-huh, nope, gah, na, oh fckn -, okaaaaay, oh yeh, ya-ya, un-huuuh?, ach!, huh?, yep, ah!, ooooh, meh, hmmmm, feh, eh?, sure ta.