by popular demand/complaint

cara & jarvis 10/09




so i've been getting some complaints about all my photos being from summer and none being from now

so

since i'm too broke to process my film

here are some bad digital photos of cara harassing our three footed four legged cat jarvis

i guess i'm turning into one of those people who takes pictures of cats

(NO NO NO NO)

summer began for me today

cara, visiting us from the district of columbia. manhattan june 2009




new york just you walk around and it insults you like you're nothing you're gonna die and then you're going to have to leave.




BUT THEN YOUR FRIENDS EMBRACE YOU

city's getting friendly again

cara & brian, tompkins square park. may 2009

take down all the hems from your clothes, you're taller now

ms cara earflowers. hare krishna celebration in manhattan may 2009




happy june

Good bye

cara darlin, east river park nyc. may 2009



back from Istanbul, back to a city lacking my favorite faces in the world. give them back, DC and Ohio and Oregon and Texas and everyplace. Even with the sirens it's quiet.

cornbread, collard greens

tompkins square park, manhattan. 4.17.2009.




i'd forgotten how easy it is to walk when the wind doesn't hurt you. last night the breeze was warm. warm- i went for hours and blocks and miles. i need new city summer sneakers. young soles that aren't scared of these new night walks.

as time passes it's harder to break my time up into swallowable pieces. i can't tell if that will make adulthood faster or slower than the last 7,000 halcyon days. my future years endlessly fall ahead of me like a bad painting with no vanishing point.

it is warm. my legs are brown. i am getting nothing done.

sixth and shevchenko

cara, manhattan. december 2008


work jumped on me like those hungry dogs in cartoons. i've been sleeping with the window open by my pillow, so my face always feels the cold and being awake isn't so much of a change.

every day is a new day here, which you can say for anywhere, but new york just makes it so easy. it isn't a question. it is immediately the elephant in the corner of the room, every morning staring at you as you sip coffee with it and all of the other ones you've met before.

yesterday was too warm to do anything real. sometimes i forget that there's as much difference between 15 and 30 degrees as there is between 65 and 80. after a while my cold hands just stop discerning, and it all is just simple cold. but the 45 degrees of yesterday was really something, and i walked to tompkins square park to listen to the pigeons coming closer as they forgot that i wasn't part of the park bench; i scared them away every time i turned a page. four different children said hello to me. but the thing that made me warmest was hearing the birds; i forgot that you need a park for that, here. you don't have that quiet bus stop wait before school on the corner of nothing road and nothing road.

breaking the windows of the fever cabin

cara, manhattan. 12.08






sorry for the petite hiatus, academia was calling.


now the only things calling are Men and Friends and the One Hour Photo down the street, so good so good
my Well well is well enough so that i can wish others well too,
have a great day