30

Coffee hits bones, brains
As side view mirror sunrise
Serves me soothing blues

29

Tired in Tonopah
Strange project I wonder if
I'll remember it

28

Scrunched in front seat for
Street sign, palm tree shots from back
Of convertible

27

Start to feel control
I get my work groove again
Prepare to leave town

26

I walk out of store
As employees croon along
To Hootie, Blowfish

25

Impromptu bar night
My urge to drink mostly gone
The night wears on though

24

Thinking of all we
lose, and will continue to
lose, as we're alive.

23

Incense in the air

No Catholic Church in sight

Remember my nose

22

The winds take my funk
So I dance with my arms as
I float along home 

21

Cry at my body

Then give eyes a place to look 

Let my ears empty 

20

Making a routine

feels new, and I'm unsteady

But I force along

19

Day long heart racing

Not sure what my body says

But I want to hurl

18

Face the post-job sads

And ease into down time life

That's not on my terms

17

Still recovering

So I don't do to do list

Tackle smallest things

16

Van's full of loose ends

Take care of a few before

Zoning out for hours

15

Budget woes make me

Anxious but we can't undo

And I did my best

14

Arcadia to
Van Nuys and back, with car keys
They needed on set

13

We (and I) will make

Mistakes and oversights and

we (and I) fix them

12

Rendered sleepless, so

I read and read and I know

My eyes will tire soon

11

Rachel calls and sings
Edelweiss and then hangs up.
Laughing on drive home.

10

Cold lentil soup lunch
Don't get a good sense of time
But the day passes

9

My euphoria

While my brain pushes limits

Feels like being high

8

Two scouts on one day 

Listen to podcasts and drive

Eat a cheeseburger 

7

(Not quite like it was)
but Hyperion Tavern
still resets my soul.

6

At ease while we talk

decade long relationship

(but so few phone calls).

5

Occurs to me my

personal, professional

fears are the same fear

4

facetime call cements

I’m good to be alone since

true friends are out there

3

Ice cream on the brain

And all the other to dos

Are hard to check off

2

It’s cool to have stress 

And not internalize it.

Keep it in one place.

1

Brain feels too light and 

bounces, tries to escape skull

I should eat some food