I have written 12.5 novels. (The thirteenth one is a work in progress). This is the space where I share my stories with the world. There is so much to say in this life, and so little time...



Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Los(t) Angeles

I've got a head full of silly dreams. What else is new? I want to move to Nashville, Austin, Vegas...and, most of all, Los Angeles...

So that's the plan. When SWA takes over, I'll head to the West Coast.

In the meantime, I'll have to deal with these crazy daydreams that fight for control of my mind! Poems help. Songs, too. But nothing will scratch the itch quite like an actual MOVE to the city of angels :)

Love, Lisa





Los(t) Angeles

Knotted comforter-
Commercials claiming it's washed fresh for each guest-
And desperate daydreams
As tangled, mangled, mismatched as these linens.
No sleep last night,
No sleep now, either.
The images of there attack me
Like a hundred wasps
Trapped inside a 10x12 studio apartment.
Remember that?
Scottsdale.
2008.
The dead of summer,
With temperatures soaring as high as 120 degrees
And I'd re-live the whole thing,
The whole hot/dry/suffocating mess,
I'd re-do every scorching, third-degree-burn moment
If it meant I'd be ten inches closer
To the celestial city
The one that contains my hope
Like a snowglobe filled with glitter.
In the darkness of this foreign room,
My fingers wrap around recycled sheets
While my mind's coiled tightly 'round an image
Just as silky and over-used...
But captivating nevertheless.
I'll get there.
If I have to crawl, I will get there.