Years ago, pre-internet/blogging, I put together my own list, in a book called 500 Questions I've Never Heard Anyone Else Ask. Examples: In those new car commercials, why are city streets always wet? And, when asking a little kid what they're eating, why do they always open their mouth to show you? Though I didn't … Continue reading Questions I’ve Never Heard Anyone Else Ask
Author: robinc33
Unwrapping Cardboard Box Secrets
(Skeletons dance, prance, in most our closets.) Unwrapping Cardboard Box Secrets This enclosure up here, seldom-seen A memories graveyard, in-often spent Belongings strewn, familial dusty boxes Of love letters’ long-gone perfume scent Attics in daytime profess nothing new A neutral, static, benign place to delve But all-day shadows defiantly darken As night creeps … Continue reading Unwrapping Cardboard Box Secrets
Borrowing from Browning
(Is it me, or the likes of me?) Borrowing from Browning My resistance... to-futile-last-grasp, It’s apparent she's not here to play; Again, my freedom forked her way. I was an army… now a force of one, Trapped In theater just inches wide by whom assumed was on my side. Is it me, or the … Continue reading Borrowing from Browning