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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.

Ron Paul

I have yet to fall
for Ron Paul. I don’t even
know what he looks like.

Change of seasons

I forgot to bring
the jade plant inside.  One
by one its fat leaves fall.

Daylight savings time 3 – extra hour to bake

Pumpkin cheesecake in
the oven. Nutmeg, ginger.
Fragrant November.

Christmas future

Fast forward to the
next holiday in the stores.
Retail at light speed.

Autumn night sky

Stars so sharp they are
holes in time, the past shining
into the future.

Daylight savings time 2 – Sunday 2 a.m.

How can one person
be so excited about
an extra hour’s sleep?

Enola Gay pilot dies 4 – sayonara

Sadako folded
a thousand paper cranes and
hoped for miracles.

Enola Gay pilot dies 3 – not his fault

My daughter asks why
I hate Paul Tibbets. He was
just doing his job.

Enola Gay pilot dies 2 – no regrets

He had no regrets
about dropping the A-bomb.
Did he have a soul?

Enola Gay pilot dies 5 – flyboy

Open the doors and
Eighty thousand lives are lost.
Helluva workday.