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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.

Daughter’s boyfriend

He won me over
with his Facebook comment on
her profile picture

Corey Haim

When Robert Frost wrote
“Nothing gold can stay,” he could
have described child stars.

Fishbowl

Bored orange nibbles
away black’s filmy fins. Sad
stubs flail lost beauty.

Goldfield Hotel

Would you check into
a portal to hell? Watching
on TV’s enough.

Miniature schnauzer

Eyes hidden under
shaggy white brows, I can still
see them shine with love

Jersey Shore

The Situation
is they’re all seconds away
from being has-beens.

Long absence

A haiku a day?
After a year away I
need to play catch-up.

Early daffodils

Like green periscopes
tiny shoots peer from muddy
beds searching for sun.

Paperless Christmas

Being green we use
fabric bags old boxes to
wrap gifts. No trees die.

Christmas LED lights

Like laser pointers
they blind in red green blue as
they save the planet