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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.

Snowbound

Door blocked by drifts, wind
knocks me back. Cold smack of snow
shouts Stay inside, fool.

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Drumsticks for dinner

cheap protein source at
99 cents a pound but
it gets old real fast

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Grey day

Desaturated
world caressed by soft, wan light
all sharp edges dulled

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Crafting

Ugly, but I made
it, my hands imparting new
life to odds and ends.

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Maxfield Parrish

Girls on rocks artist
his blues so luminous they
named one after him

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Kimchi

They say it’s good for
pro-biotic health but no
one likes cabbage breath

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Rush hour snowstorm

Four-wheel ballet, cars
spin swirl glide across four lanes
trying to get home

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Bright future

Quit, burned bridges, then
asked for job back…in a text.
Guy’s got major balls.

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Late start

Still-in-my-bathrobe
day, a car without gas that
can’t leave the garage.

Interview

Hear myself rambling
on, using sixty words when
six would do, and cringe.