Sadness is like humidity It’s like the wet hot Florida heat that fogs your sunglasses and gets trapped in your throat The warmth makes it hard to breath The temperature is palpable And sometimes your heart just hurts Depression can be sticky Like sap on your hands Disrupting every touch So that your fingers cloyingly…
Author: reviewjax
Welcoming My Precious Intruder
Pregnancy is a strange sicknessWith a promised finale of utter pain followed by overwhelming joyBut for many months that growing fetus infects youThis living wondrous thing takes residence in a bodyVery unfamiliar with foreign, living occupantsThe host can have moments of being rather perturbedBy the intensity with whichThis seed takes root and ripples through the…
Us
We will be three Three we will be Five with the pups, Michael, baby and me
I digress
I took your name off the listand it toppled a thousand tablesBook strewn and predictable You were a mighty treeBlowing the daffodil and cattail wind my way You, that apparitionMe, that curly haired voyeur You couldn’t handle complicatedYou eradicated A forest of affectionGrown only on the nurturingOf imagination and a few chance meeting You silly…
Encounter with the Local Republican Party
A friend asked for help on the Republican party website for the county he lived in. I needed money so I offered to help. I told him I could work on the site at an hourly rate. He agreed to have me help. We worked for a couple hours together, then he gave me a…
Politics in the Time of Corona
When it comes to politics, I mostly listen. But I’m getting older. And I have things to say. Choosing a Party I was independent one year. But then kinda felt like I was just throwing away my vote. So, the next election, I chose the Local Republican Party. It matched with my upbringing, aligned with…
What is an everyday poet? Part I
Everyday life deserves description, and putting artful words together to share your experience with others can make you a poet. I chose the name everyday poet for this site because of my belief that everyone has the potential to be an everyday poet. It’s doesn’t matter how ordinary your life is or how little you…
NPR 2020 New Year's Resolution Challenge
14 Days into 2020 and I am trying not to bemoan the lack of progress on paying back my gross student loan. My plan to walk a mile every day has gone to blah because I can’t get over this bronchitis cough For two weeks I have not yet changed my diet to veggies and…
TPC & Perf Ponte Vedra Weather
The TPC has kicked off and you better hope you have a plan to park and get to the quickest most glam tent ever. Reading about this event kinda makes me miss my web.com days, when I wrote copy for some of the players websites. Get a glimpse of a day in the life of…