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About gimble

I've never understood why solitary confinement is considered a punishment. My favorite time of year is when vacation forces me to drive long hours on the overnight stretch, all other companions in the car asleep, my thoughts and the dark stretch of white-striped road all to myself. Having said that, I can happily keep busy inside my head, yet am distracted by so much of the larger world that I waste time putting those thoughts generated by those distractions down on cyber-paper. Maybe I want to see if anyone else feels likewise. Though not as bright, sharp or hard as a diamond, I am many faceted - esoteric in my literature, tending toward magic realism - pop-culture vulturish in my take on media - sentimental enough to cry at dog food commercials - and a lover of kitsch, like diners and other holes in the wall of life.

Riding the El

Red blue brown green pink
purple lines, veins arteries
pulse with commuters.

Chicago skyscrapers

Though Burnham’s Folly’s
in New York, he saved his best
for his hometown dreams.

Buckingham Fountain

What naiad dances
in your pulsing, surging heart,
calling me to her?

Missing Chicago

City of Shoulders
Your fountains bring tears, your sky
scrapers pierce my heart.

Salon visit

She contemplates bangs,
a different color, hair
as reinvention.

Doing too much at Disneyworld

At the Happiest
Place on Earth, worn-out tots shriek,
deprived of their naps.

Disneyworld Character Meet & Greets

With more handlers than
Lindsay, their paparazzi –
parents; stalkers – tots.

Time management in Disneyworld

Fastpass, Magic Hours,
maximizing each for the
most fun possible.

Two actors eating lunch

Intense chemistry
onstage. In real life, silent,
eyes not quite meeting.

Lunchtime turnover at Panera

Morning mommies soon
supplanted by suits checking
BlackBerry emails.