Category Archives: character sketch

Killing time

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Oppression is a disease to be eradicated.  Sadly humans are carriers.  But if this (photo of Pakistani female pilot, Ayesha Farooq) were an American male fighter pilot, flag on his helmet, in an American F-16 going on the same bombing run against … Continue reading →

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Missing Men

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’d no real idea what I was looking at – it seems a sublime visage foretells the future, more than it reveals the present moment. There is one channel, many rivers…best not to confuse the two. Suffice to say, men … Continue reading →

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Your Cat is Dead and I’m Smiling

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Photo credit: Alex Esquerra Last night your bedroom was tattoo-parlor-red… You were a relentless sex machine and your Alex Esguerra painting was knocked from the wall during our rough housing. I found it behind the bed when I was looking … Continue reading →

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Your Cat is Dead – Post Mortem

Posted on July 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We reduce love to the sexy acts we do within it.  We clench the carnal, like a drowning man clenches a block of granite and would hope to float.  All our sojourner  has is his sock in his hand – … Continue reading →

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What They Say

Posted on June 27, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

It’s not always what we say with these lips… tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Albatross

Posted on May 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

This is the albatross… Our imaginations are like this; abnormally large wing spans, resting infrequently if at all for many trips around the earth, sleeping in flight, heart only racing when it lands… monogamous, faithful to it’s own solitude and … Continue reading →

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The Altar of Happiness, Ruins of Sorrow

Posted on April 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

…I mused an eon of my life one evening, on the purpose of existence and on what leaves me with the most certainty, those being both birth and death; as well as that which gives me the least certainty – … Continue reading →

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Ode to a Road Runner

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

(March 6, 2014) Diamond hard headache you have a chemical in your left hand and the door is to your right. Pavement. Take the pavement, quick. Oh wrinkled earth, do you feel my gentle journeys across your skin? I am … Continue reading →

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Revelations Along the Path: First Soliloquy

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Along the spiritual path, we delve into realms That send tiny truth fairies to us – like wisps of snow Polishers, sharpeners, honing stones, tuning forks They make us sensitive and aware and yet it is subtle The affects of … Continue reading →

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My Son’s 10th Birthday

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Born 10 years ago today, OUR son is an inspiration specifically selected to BE. He’s not mine as much as he is his own. And that’s how he shall be raised, inshallah. We ask for glimpses of God’s plan for … Continue reading →

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