Sea above, Sky below....the restless waves.

 August 31st, 2006:

 these last three weeks have been a time of troubles.

and yet while if fills me up like a longneck bottle full of loneliness. i drink deep to soothe the scars.

no wine in the house. so i have to settle for this generic can of beer with an aluminum aftertaste.

i find myself night-dreaming....


Awash on a bed floating amidst the ocean tide. when the day breaks my back all I can smell are the vinyl records buried in the sea breeze. I squish the sand between my toes and think of simple pleasures and dear friends not forgotten but so far away.

in two weeks time i turn yet another year older. it does not seem to faze me but my flame is flickering. it only comes alive in the moonlight with wet hair and wine glasses.

so i raise my glass heartily to better times and rainy grey afternoons. to live guitar and pirate doubloons. to Asian cinema and Swedish bedframes, to Sonic Youth records and Emily Haines....

summer comes to a close like the last droplet of alcohol evaporating in the air. were it not so that i could have spent it in love with something more than just an idea. we grow cynical and lose sight of what makes us wonder with hearts outloud and laughing eyes.;

so drink up as your years slide from you, but keep those close who bind your heart with the naiveté of youth. for they know what others do not. hold tight to the ring of friendship and hope they never let go as you easily would....