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Spring is coming!! I've seen it everywhere this weekend. The bluejays are back, along with some other yellow birds I saw, the poplars are starting to colour in the trunks (I've noticed the bark darkening, yellowing), it was gloriously warm....

And on some conversations I've had the last couple of weeks:

CM: What's on your necklace, Trent? (Trent untucks the pentacle from his his shirt, CM gasps) Are you a nazi?
TW: What?! How the hell do you get nazi?
CM: Isn't that the nazi star?
TW: No. It's not. (KS enters)
KS: Who's a nazi?
TW: She saw my necklace and thought I was a nazi.
KS: Why? What's on your necklace? (Trent untucks the pentacle again) No, that's the jewish star, isn't it?
TW: That's right, I'm jewish.
CM: That's probably why I got it confused, because of the whole nazi/jewish thing.

And then there was:

"You should be prepared for the worst."
"I know." He looked out the widow, watching the grey sky lighten by degrees.
"It's going to hurt like a bitch if you do all this work and then she still tells you she doesn't want to go to Greece."
"I know." He paused again, staring out the window, spreading his fingers out infront of him on the desk. "I just..."
"You deserve to have someone there who is excited for your goals and who encourages you. Tell her how important this is for you."
He thought about this, not just now but before, and he rationalized it, like he always did. That would be impossible for most people to keep up. "Maybe it's me," he said, not explaining his thought. Realizing how he sounded, he smirked and stood up, pacing to the window. "That sounded bad. But it's just not easy because everything is monumental to me." He sat back down. "I just want to go outside and climb a tree."

I've got verse rolling around in my head, incubating. I suspect that by the end of the week I'll have a new poem. I love this feeling, being on the verge of creation, holding the nothing and deciding what it could be...

I am:
Replaying KOTOR II and just finished repelling a merc assault on Khoonda.
Reading Spider-man & Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do #6 by Kevin Smith. 3 years in the making, and really not that great.
Listening to Black Sabbath's Dehumanizer

posted by September @ 7:42 AM