Windy Wishes

Baja           4/7/21

my black dog Baja 

stares up, blinking at pedals

falling from a tree 

blossom beating

4/10/22

When I see this picture, I feel comforted. This feels so familiar.

Last night, I got into some conversations with my friends about life, heaven, past lives and future lives. I will never know who or what I lived in my past or future, because the only plane that we truly know is real, and the only one we have control over is the present. But I see an image like this, I know I’ve been these before. I’ve swam in these water, basked in these iridescent light beams.

And I look foreword to the moment I get to do it all again.

4/5/22 (2)

Hello! Took a little break from posting haikus because I was in Spain, but I’m back!

Question: should I start titling my haikus?

Ronnie the Snail

4/21/22

indoor ocean, 4/3/24

this piece was inspired by a conversation I had with a kid. we were playing with some wooden toy fish and we spilled the whole box of them on the floor, and then he told me that the carpet was the ocean. i loved that imaginative moment. i've been in a few conversations about tapping into your inner child recently, and i myself have been trying to grasp onto more moments of imagination like we had so freely as children.

okay, but for real, this is my fav AI art piece that I've ever gotten from my haikus. gotta love the wombo dream app.

Fun fact! According to folklorists, all myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes that are about some dude named Jack are talking about the same guy

What this means is, that ever single one of the following

Jack Be Nimble (who jumped over burning candles for fun)

Jack the Giant Killer (who sold his cows for magic beans then robbed and killed a giant)

Stingy Jack (who tricked the devil so many times he was banned from both afterlives)

Jack of Jack and Jill (who splattered his head open falling down a hill)

Jack o’ Lantern (the headless horseman spirit of halloween)

Jack Frost (the spirit who heralds the end of autumn and the start of winter)

Are literally the same jackass who made so many bad life choices he ended up an immortal ice dullahan with a pumpkin serving as both his head and flashlight

shower.

I rewrote the lyrics to A Day In Life by the Beatles from a modern day lens when Trump got elected in November, and thought today would be a proper day to share it. Got my good friend @larrybarnesmusic to play it with me.

I could talk about all the ways this is scary and upsetting, but at the end of that day, I think all that's important right now is to be here for one another. Hug your friends today, and take care of yourself.