#third summer

[mumblelard]

the sunflower seeds we spread for the birds are so eager to sprout they can't contain themselves

we've had so much rain this week. it shutdown the highways and overwhelmed the water treatment plants and hid the horizon with fog

in the last month, boba's brought me two dead moles and one chipmunk. they're limp and lifeless but unmutilated and she trades them for just a couple of treats. she's so excited when she presents them to me, and i'm proud of her, but still sad for the little beasts

everytime she heads out, i warn her against interfering with the songbirds, but i know if she has a chance at a cardinal, she'll take it

last night, i slept well and dreamt of a life in a tall tower and dreamt of going to another room to kiss a girl and dreamt of signs with almost words dancing and shaking into the shapes of happy animals

later today, we're going to heat up a cast iron wok full of peanut oil and deep fry natural casing sabrett's and crinkle fries and i'll drink a tall boy and fall asleep watching baseball on the couch

[mumblelard]

slips disced or a southern gothic childhood (with surp)

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next stop elkmont or gratuitous picture of your mumblelard wuersday

fallie painted that owl when he was seven. the opposite of a dream catcher, it's hung over my bed since after the before times. since the last painting burned

[mumblelard]

the kindly ones

[mumblelard]

pools and pits or quarries are queries

i foraged a stack of old trade magazines last week. i started processing the paper this morning

after a too dry spring, we've had inches and inches of rain the last two weeks. there are mushrooms all over the place. yesterday, i cut through the sanctuary to the owl prowl, without getting trespassed by the old lady again. the woods were so lush, the trails were dark tunnels. i finished a new mixtape and i have almost enough trimmings for a sprue

last night we ate faux-fil-a nuggies and fancy fries, drank dollar bucket nonsense, and talked about firefly camping next week

i think the camera i here is the same one i used to shoot all the polaroid jesus pictures. it's old and well used. i know the new film chemistry isn't the same. a lot of the old stuff for it isn't made, isn't safe, isn't legal anymore. the new formulas, not quite right yet. the prints don't smell right when they're developing. still, i think the old camera has the most say in how these pictures are turning out. they're getting more and more painterly. i love how they look against the dark

a big family dinner this afternoon. the beginning of summer and granny's birthday all in one. ribs and corn and watermelon and what all. it ought to be a nice day

[mumblelard]

good omens on stormy days or i snuck into the second pool i tried for the rain or shine, ritual, first swim of the summer and i did it all for you

also happy cunty mix season for all who celebrate

[mumblelard]

but sometimes, just sometimes, the map is the territory or mumblelard's hand revisited

[mumblelard]

a bowl full of fruit and a belly full of snakes or market day

there's a storm headed this way and i can hear the crows hollering about it

last night i dreamt i was back in the office where i worked when the towers happened. we were between the federal reserve building and one of the tallest buildings in the city, both were considered potential targets, so we weren't allowed back for almost three months. fallie was born in the middle of all that time. i dreamt that i was stuck in the elevator that was always broken and i knew i just had to wait

i dreamt the quiet man made a toy robot that looked like me and shot missiles out its fists

i'm reading the whale book i found on the free pile. when i'm done, i think i'm going to reread the other whale book again for the ninth or twelfth time

i'm trying to shake things up even if some stuff breaks in the process