#13

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I haven't been very present on my other blog, either. I've been working nonstop nights, and when I get home all I want to do is just shut off my brain. Other than that, I've been doing volunteer work, and trying to enjoy the last remnants of summer as much as possible with my good friends. Its been hard to focus on writing, really.

I recently did a guest post on my friend Sarah's pretty lil' blog, Atlantic Atlantis, along with some other very talented ladies. Check it out! Her blog is a wonderful read.

I have several postings to make. The first is a poem I wrote on a break at work, in my first week there. I guess I was trying to capture the mundane, everyday feel of working in a convenience store and make it into something beautiful:

"in search of poetry amidst

shining cobalt tincans

that reflect noisy midnights,

the constant tinkling of bells

that single the gentle clink

of amber glass

i search for music in the beeping

of scanners, their angry crimson gaze

in the grinding of meats, the gentle

sawing of blades through soft,

warm bread

i search for meaning

in the unfocused eye

of middle-aged men,

the soft rumbling of

change in their pockets

their sour smells that hang

onto worn t-shirts

and torn jeans

each pebble in the carpets

tells the history of those

who have walked these

floors, broken glass maps

of parties that have long been over

the footprints are ghosts

of lives that have wandered off

elsewhere"

Thats all I got in me tonight. My eyes are drooping. I'm crazing something salty, some nice smells. I need new books to read. What is everybody reading lately, anyways? Until next day. I promise there'll be another soon! Fingers crossed.

SJ