Last night I attended an open mic at Monkey Wrench Books hosted by Queer Sol, an arts collective based here in Austin. I read three poems: “Girl dies in Arizona,” “An afternoon at the museum,” and “Monologue of a mystery writer.” I haven’t read in years — I think the last time was in New [...]
There are times when your mind goes in wonderful directions; other times, less so.
I awoke in the wee hours of morning gripped by an awful sense of dread and the image of a dead deer flickering through my head like an old film reel. The deer I had actually seen earlier in the day on [...]
Austin. Winnie. New Orleans. Mobile. Dauphin Island. Pensacola. Santa Rosa Island. Panama City. Tallahassee. Waycross. Aiken.
It’s a small, arbitrary list. Some of the places I stayed a night or two (or five) in, others I simply passed through, or stopped long enough to get off the bike to take a picture and fill up the [...]
I’ve been in New Orleans since Sunday afternoon, and though I’ve spent my days bicycling up and down familiar avenues, I’ve firmly kept my mind on the present.
But on my way home last night I couldn’t help myself, and I went many streets out of my way to pedal past a house at 1217 Magazine [...]
One potential path for my journey, as of 6am on Wednesday, after fiddling with Google Maps for a few minutes during a spell of not-sleeping. The southern route comes first, swoop up through Montgomery to Atlanta, then on to South Carolina. Hit Savannah on the way back (Google here wants to send me back through [...]
In a few weeks I’ll be leaving on a three- or four-week long motorcycle tour of the Southeast United States. Much of what I’m doing these days consists of obsessing over the details of trip, wondering aloud what on earth I’ve gotten myself into, and working my way through a pile of books (previously photographed) [...]
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