Camp Counselors At Night

2am and even the mosquitoes are sleeping, but we are still up, campers slumbering in bunk bed cabins with wet towels hanging from wooden pegs, luna moths circling bathroom lights in the distance, the talk goes on and on, 17 year-olds under summer stars in virginia countryside night, sitting on wooden picnic tables, flirting with time and each other, we’ve hit that moment where words don’t matter anymore, just eyes twinkling in the quiet dark surrounded by trees, warm july breeze, daylight will arrive, but not yet, not yet.

A Rattlesnake Story

the rattlesnake doesn’t care, has heard the stories about sucking out venom and survival, how the young can’t control the release of poison, sun is out, languid, or perhaps curled up as if, but no, the rattlesnake doesn’t care, sits there on the trail, the protagonist in your story, the one where you fear the fangs, as if that would actually happen, and it could, you claim, show everyone the video of that one man, his hand swollen, they are dangerous, see, i told you, but the rattlesnake doesn’t care, the ground is just the ground, dirt, rocks, summer heat on hillside home, your story is just your story, the rattlesnake doesn’t care, slithers away

20 One-Liners After Reading Joe Brainard

Winter

Ice is more likely than snow.

Summer

Sun, sand, and shore, what you thought.

Writing

Is only part of what I am thinking.

Today

Will be like tomorrow, but different.

In the country

Deer cross roads and sometimes die.

Recipe

One part chocolate, one part graham cracker, one part marshmallow, add flame first.

That feeling

When you just know.

Ecuador

The place where a cow fell on me but missed.

Happiness

Is a good Beatles song or a warm puppy.

Money

Do pennies really matter anymore?

Lake

Powell, Crater, Radnor, Tahoe, Champlain

The Sky

Isn’t falling, although it sometimes feels that way.

Carrots

Taste best with hummus.

Modern Times

Everyone has the answer, no one has the answer.

Real life

When your tooth is being extracted.

Loyalty

Is canceling all of your plans.

Something to think about 

If you are really really quiet, you probably already know.

Virginia

I am always a young person here.

Human nature

To believe in the divine.

Stars

The phosphorescent paint in constellation stories.

Laugh With Summer

The eternal summer laughs, joyce mansour, the name, the face, the poet, jewish-eygptian, born in england, portrait fragments. she was right, the eternal summer laughs, like fireflies, barefoot grass, lemonade, and tanned skin. as tom hanks said, there’s no crying in baseball, save your tears for winter, today we laugh with june.