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Archive for the month “February, 2026”

endless numbered days

scent of old garlic  rancid   ditto old cabbage  wafts up over mean streets

on this crisp morning  -35 with wind  about to begin the final pages of

Murray Stein’s tome on ch ch ch changes  he looks nothing like Bowie

more a jewish Harry Truman  his words re-shaping my relationship to

death  a wizened jungian  Murray encourages me to  bury the corpses of

former personas   before they bury me   who   they bury  down in the hole

in the pinebox   Nefertiti carved head    matters  

you don’t want to be clinging still   to your ingenue  now do you?  Murray

with great enthusiasm  encourages embracing  liminality  that hazy place

between 59 + 79  those 20 yrs. of life  Catherin O Hara  spoke so fervently

about  last week  pre-shortness of breath  in her brown faux-fur robe   her

comb still warm  her lipstick waiting  bed damp  book open  to page 666

Daniel Deronda    a personal fave

my boudoir not much different  silver hairs in comb  nut debris in bed

sticky-salty stained sheets  fuchsia Ugg slippers  warm   Frank Stanford’s

308 page  15,000 word poem   waiting   currently on 4,047th word   this

morning i notice a slight leviathan  levitation  as i walk to my café  trying

not to think about the bullseye  on my back   + btw who the fuck scooped

my parents?  Murray?  Murray?   perhaps you’ve run out of answers

you wretched old jungian you

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..the road is nearby even when you are at home and secured at the hearth..

(Murray Stein  In Midlife  2014)  ie., don’t get too cozy in that bed   mother

actually intuited this  refusing to sleep in her bed for over a decade  when the

Reap came for pick up   she hopped in  spending 15 hrs. taking a final breath –

she showed him!)

Winter 2026  ..imbolc..the seeds are stirring..🌸🌸🌸

 

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