Saying Goodbye Misty autumnal 8 a.m. A line of twenty-two geese On their early morning commute Lazy flapping Following the tracks Keeping to the margins of earth and sea Ignoring the cormorant hanging out to dry. Part of me is still looking around That last look Nervous in anticipation of what I’ve forgotten Or never…
It’s surprising to find myself in this place – about to “start again” – not quite believable. But perhaps it’s not accurate to think of it as starting again. I have the sense of a concentration of forces – emotional, psychological, spiritual – and from that a new wave gathers force “out there in the…
I dont know, I thought to myself, the Rules, and over the next two days with enough pressure to give me a migraine the following formed: Rules These are the rules for writing down these are the rules for making money, songs, a good life, a good death, and gone beyond, I don’t…
Categories (2024) are:
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.