: About Me

I am 47 years old and love to write. Poetry is what I'm best at and have had several poems published. I live in Minneapolis and have lived here my whole life.

My passion is ...

writing, bob dylan, live blues, the beatles

I know too much about ...

addiction and chemical dependency, the 60's, American Literature,

My parents always told me ...

life is what you make it

My childhood ambition ...

to be like Bob Dylan as a poet and/or musician

My favorite memory ...

Thanksgiving 2003 spent with my 2 daughters

Why I write ...

therapy, release, getting in touch with myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

been listening to Wilco lately, Jeff Tweedy is a brilliant and poetic lyricist, also Ryan Adams

My first job ...

Bridgeman's as a dishwasher

My best moment ...

a couple brief periods in my life where my capabilities felt boundless and I felt I could do anything

My inspiration ...

My own life and it's trials and tribulations, people I know and their experiences, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Jackson Browne

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Emotional wounds

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Ashes I don't remember Looks of longing burning holes Into an already fractured heart The smell of dead flesh smoldering causes No reaction in those steely blue eyes staring Wayward through the holes in me Even when I turn my head just can't help Seeing her as she captures me I don't remember Tender moments that were branded And twitched the nerves in my soul Deliberately dressing weathered gypsy moths Into butterflies just newly emerged from My innocence that was their cocoon Couldn't conceive of those unearned wings In spite of the powdered ashes in my hands I can't forget Sinking into s...

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