Category Archives: summer

Skipping Stones

Posted on July 23, 2018 by soitgoes1984

I last time I had skipped a stone across the water I was seventeen it was the waning weeks before my senior year of high school on a hot summer evening after a hard days work on the farm still … Continue reading →

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Starry Night Over Ho’olehua

Posted on July 17, 2017 by soitgoes1984

Just when the world gets too heavy pound after pound after pound piling up until its too much I step out into the meadow and look up and every star twinkles, billions upon billions upon billions beyond what we can … Continue reading →

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Jar

Posted on July 15, 2017 by soitgoes1984

one by one by one all the lights go out until you’re sitting there in darkness with a jar full of dead fireflies

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Real Eyes

Posted on September 21, 2016 by soitgoes1984

My eyes are burning as I’m falling through space galaxies become stars I fall further from grace   and the race has no ending, I begin to realize that these signals they’re sending are just coded lies   and these … Continue reading →

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Rainbows And Butterflies

Posted on May 17, 2016 by soitgoes1984

She brought me rainbows and butterflies to dry all those tears I was drowning in   we got puppy dogs and ice cream she warmed my heart like a sunbeam and when we played scrabble she let me win   … Continue reading →

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nature’s symphony

Posted on September 4, 2015 by soitgoes1984

as the crow flies the crickets chirp a familiar tune that is generations old the babble of a nearby brook and the sporadic bark of dogs add to the symphony the creatures, I can’t identify individually by sound but the … Continue reading →

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Génération Perdue

Posted on June 14, 2015 by soitgoes1984

We are a generation lost amidst the rubble of the                            world we                               … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Seagulls

Posted on August 5, 2014 by soitgoes1984

Ninth inning AT&T Park, after dark but the lights are still lit I certainly hope they don’t shit on me these seagulls patiently waiting for one two three strikes, last out so they can dive bomb the bleachers looking for … Continue reading →

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Progress

Posted on July 7, 2014 by soitgoes1984

The women sat there aging like their cheap wine wearing decorations from imperial wars of old as their children, conceived on mid-tour leave years ago leave home for the first time to go learn the lingo of soldiers as they … Continue reading →

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A Prayer to Saint Jim (3/20/14)

Posted on March 21, 2014 by soitgoes1984

Kurt Cobain has been dead for twenty years now and the roosters crow and the dogs bark and time stops for no one. It feels like yesterday I was seventeen paying for gas with a jar full of pennies, getting … Continue reading →

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