Poem "Buenos Aires"

if and when you find me

leaning against the back of the chassis / of a fallen starship

if and when you find me / eyes closed / underneath the dorsal fin

just tap me on the shoulder / with your index finger

and i’ll unzip my jacket to let you in

like a stick of light / that you only have to snap to ignite

your signal is all that i need to receive / to reilluminate my eyes

we make it our personal responsibility / to hold an umbrella over this city

if and when we land / in an alpine meadow / on top of the andes

if and when we can relax / for just a moment / before the war goes on

you don’t even have to open your eyes

just tilt your head / and hold my hand / and smile

like a lithium ion battery / we can recharge almost as many times as we need

given a consistent source of energy / we can approach infinity

some things go right / in spite of how much of everything goes wrong

the light in your eyes / stays on

some things seem to persist / in spite of how very little they make sense

until their end / it’s not a question of if / but when

we make it our personal responsibility / to hold an umbrella over this city

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world of noon by vombavr

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starship troopers / may twenty-fourth

Small Download/Upload

Being a very slow and gradual explorer, I heard Led Zeppelin's "All My Love" for the first time today. And loved it.

Poem "Reactorspheres"

more than one ball of fire in the sky

close enough to be comforting / but at a safe distance

at your beck and call / you can turn it down

when you move your hand like a wand

or accelerate the particles to the point

where your eyes turn gold / to shield your soul against an overload

nothing more than / a fracturing sphere

under the surface of your consciousness / in a dark and brackish pond

i’ll pick up the pieces / if you don’t mind / while you dry yourself out

that’s just how we work / how we are

water cooled / centrifuges / head-first / into you, over me

the water flows to a head / into its ending / and our beginning

a midst the mists /and the wintergreen

you’re not dreaming / we’re having a moment / this is synergy

the sun winks at you / through the fractal geometric trees

cascading chain reaction

it’s not the photograph / it’s your caption

i love you

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Poem "Red Star"

every time I cross an intersection

every time I see a red honda civic

i have an instant of obsession with whether it's you in it

your code is still running in my mind

facial recognition software / crossing the lines

but that update's passed its time / you and me / we're obsolete

it’s better the sooner we come to terms

and accept the road as better for its curves

but what does that really mean?

was driving north / thru turnagain pass

and suddenly, overtaken tactlessly

cursed the insensitivity that some people have

maybe there's some irony in that

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closure / revised on stardate 060514

Poem "Nowwhen"

it doesn't make sense / it doesn't help

to know that everyone else / is doing okay

it's a small consolation / to know

that the star you've been following doesn't exist any more

that it was just your imagination's interpretation

of the bleeding light of an extinct constellation

all we need / is release from the pain / please

we were meant / for more than the doom / that we've collapsed into

we were meant to be more / than these wrecks washed up on this lonely shore

we were destined / to look to the stars

with the potential to become / more than we are

i don't know how it's come to this / it's the hope that's missing

the sky was retracting / into the back of a getaway van

leaving me alone / in a void all my own

i'm broadcasting to tell you that i still care

if there's a chance that there's anyone still out there

i haven't forgotten about you

i'm just drowning in an ocean of endless blue

until something snaps my synapses / and i wake

whatever it takes

all we need / is to feel the pain / for just a second

and then release

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Music Video

This is just one of the best feeling audiovisual things I've experienced lately. Full spectrum gorgeous. I didn't used to have much interest in Justin Timberlake, but a couple of his songs have really meant something to me in the last six months or so.

And I totally want to be him in the performance above, on that stage with that band. Good energy going on, there.

Graphic Design

So, here is a logo of sorts that I came up with, for a project -- not an actual job, just a hobby -- that I'm working on. I sketched it out on a piece of paper earlier this week, and then drew up this 'digitized version' today:

I probably spent far more time on the above image than I needed to, but I really wanted it to be geometrically precise, and I was trying out some new things in Photoshop. Anyway, it turned out well relative to my expectations, so that's good. I feel like I accomplished something. ; )

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