Category Archives: vignette

Note to Self: Rose Petal Rejects

Posted on November 27, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

A squirrel clings to a tree trunk, teasing and taunting a large tiger striped cat slumbering on the path. I run by, but pirouette for a second glance. Assortments of humans in the lakeside plaza eat alfresco. The tree’s around Lake … Continue reading →

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Prey Animals (12/20/06 coming home from Australia)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

In the lost ends of a long field, the creature stood – brushed in a bristling mahogany coat, dusted with honey and java. I could only stand there swaying imperceptibly on the dying grass. From his flanks, a slight swirl of steam lifted … Continue reading →

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Gadaffi, Diamond, and Me in the Basement

Posted on April 9, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Neil Diamond can save the world…woke up this morning from a dream in which Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi is living in my childhood home basement. It is a finished basement, with a low ceiling, and it smells like the faint flatulence … Continue reading →

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Visitation

Posted on April 6, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

His child smiles lovingly and with admiration at his Dad, who stands at the coffee bar at Starbucks, paused and smiling back at his son.  They sit nearly silent, but at rest at home, the single Dad with the thousand … Continue reading →

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Something to look at. (8/9/98)

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Something to cast lines at from the depths of my soul.  It’s always about validation.His foot taps to a staccato rhythm. Fingers on the buttons With a pattern of taps and presses, he can take it up or down Or replicate … Continue reading →

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Essay: Love is an ever unfolding friendship.

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love is an ever unfolding friendship:  Consumed the by the most poignant and desirous lessons of love, we speak of endless unfolding as we wrap around each other in this inextricable embrace.  Falling in love is not the closing of … Continue reading →

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Perth, Australia

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I pressed firmly into my seat, as the massive jet slipped gravity.  At 300 kilometers per hour, the runway in Melbourne fell away, music already in my ears, companionless as usual.  We banked hard to the west, rising above the … Continue reading →

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Walking My Dog “Memory”

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

Interesting – as everything is coming into the harbor and some things will make it to their slips, others will crash against the rocks, others will just turn around and head back out to sea. Meanwhile, all is adrift. Yesterday … Continue reading →

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Biography

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I grew up with this drive…and sometimes it was a band (skynrd, molly hatchet, journey, REO, 38 special, Dead, Rush, YES)…it was an event, fast ride, beer cans, woods, a camaro…a house party, bon fire, south jersey shore and wooded … Continue reading →

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Jim Harrison

Posted on April 3, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

…still smelling like Athit, I found myself awakening in first class next to the recluse, Jim Harrison. Jim Harrison was planetary from the moment I saw him. He is a thick and somewhat round man, dense enough to have his … Continue reading →

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