at the laundromat today: adventures in clean clothes, OR...the vagina prophecies

I start putting my clothes into the front loaders and a man puts a neatly folded shirt and pants on top of the washer and says
(with an African accent--unknown country of origin)

"Can you sew these for me?" he smiles and walks away.

I just start laughing and say, "Oh, I cant sew, sorry."
Him: "You mean you just havent learned to sew yet."
Me: "Yes, I guess I stand corrected."
Him: "You know, sewing is going to be very important in the future."
Me: "Well, possibly, especially if there is a technological apocalypse, but I'm hoping there are more important things than sewing in my future."
Him: "You reap what you sew''
Me: "Yeah, when you put it that way sewing does seem very important."
Him: "Not as important as sewing the seeds of God."
Me: "?"
Him: "In the future, nothing will be as important as your vagina. Are you a virgin?"

and scene.

M. O.

Make sense,
nonsense
but incense, not so much...

Dressed like the sky...I called first and asked
"hey, what are you gonna wear?"

there was a...

DOLPHIN SHOW!!! They were trick riding the waves..
back flips, and high leaps...the kind that get memorialized on
paper weights and necklace pendants.

smoke on the water

a fire in the sky

you can feel the fire everywhere now,
with your nose
your eyes
your mouth.

hot and dry owned every moment of the day

wildfire sunset

this weekend

Just drove north on the 405, randomly chose an exit...
this is 5 minutes from Magic Mountain.

...

I noticed what I thought was a bunch of trash
in a pine grove just off the path.
What I came upon instead
was all that was left of a red tail hawk
who didnt go down without a fight...
feathers scattered
in a large spiral pattern
A crow cawed plaintively
as I investigated
and then a big gust blew
half the feathers
up and away,
a sublime final flight

***

It was incredibly windy...no really
it was strong enough to push me uphill
but it also tried to shove me off a cliff.
I had to lay flat until it subsided.
But all that wind meant I had
Castaic Lake all to myself
(except for the one guy I saw fishing)

!

It was so windy
that this duck
which I passed on the way in
was gone
on the way out

on today's walk

...

also

&

on your marks..get set..GO!

The Ballad of...

They opened
She fell in.

She opened
He parted.

He parted
She opened further.

AM/PM

It had been meant in an innocent sort of way, but it just hung in the air...pulsing...gathering blood like an erection.

While inside my head

Also,
while walking,
I saw
in a peaceful green yard
toys after a battle
A dinosaur and a crocodile.
the dino on its side, its mouth suspended in a silent roar
the croc on its back, its claws scratching at an impenetrable sky

HER: This is my friend, Bella.
HIM: Bella, that's a nice name.
ME: Yeah. Things with two "L"s feel good in your mouth.

ode to my fan

the blades slice the space into infinity
and I sleep better
when the particles of my day
disperse

Yesterday saw a red tailed hawk perched on a street lamp on Centinela Blvd (ironically centinela means sentinel in english)...and it just seemed so out of place, out of sync with the traffic signals and the 7 eleven and the dotted line of cars below. And in that moment I was the hawk, taking it all in from a perch, just trying to adapt to the neverending set of changing circumstances and moods, belonging to something else but needing to survive here.

And what I had known in the morning with certainty seemed of little use by the afternoon and barely believed by night.

peeing is believing

While I laid on the grass by the koi pond a little girl, no older than 4 approached me.

"Some people pee in there.", she said authoritatively.