June 19th, 2024 Half Dome Diaries
#50 #empress #half #halfdome #priestess #sorceress #yosemite
Every once in a while, when my bunkmates are asleep (or at least I hope they are), and the jingle of the keys fades to the end of the hall,
Just leave the fucking flags at ha… Or half-staff. Or whatever it’s called. Just fucking leave them there.
Forget shoplifting, not pushing your cart back to the cart-corral is the true crime. Amazing,
Sometimes the sky is orange, sometimes it takes a purplish hue— mountains for contrast their dimen… and the light pervades twixt our c… and the light washes down mine fac…
You can get better, or you can get worse, or you can stay the same. But you can’t change. Nope!
Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,
Which came first, the egg or the h… An old friend visits on the anniversary of his death— He finds a voice
Nothing is all I ever wanted, now I’ve got it all! Careful! Lest I become a braggart… From nowhere it’s a hard fall.
Nine times out of ten, it’s a demon you’re seeing, not an angel. They have all kinds of disguises, I know-I know,
You can ask to be shown opened unto a dimension and realm but woe unto thee fleshly being
A Sacred Site is the ultimate emblem, a trophy of the horizon’s finitude… No better a final gate, no more wiser a runway,
Walking lakeside, I try to discern what the frogs a… but their drone is one collective… Diving again and again after the secret,
Curling black from crematorium sta… tell me again the hoax of the soul… The cowl paces, pretends to be faceless, swinging silver and wafting saccha…
I saw a man and his crumb snatcher… sprawled on the porch of their hom… it was painted a bright ocher with… small, modest, humble, clean, givi… A joy, in short.
Two onyxes atop another out where the witch frolics, the signal clear, it rang through my throat so loudly I frightened myself: