Bill Kimzey

Just some notes. In the second act [ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ], the family members who have crowded into Brick's room disperse, and he a...

The Black Sun 1. I sit far back from the center where people walk their strollers and throw frisbees. Depending on what the wind is say...

For the User Experience The UX artist chose us because we’re ripe and isolated. (Or did she step our siblings flat then shoot fro...

The Sense of Grief                 “The countless that love caused to lose their lives” – Dante Inferno, Canto V Cinderella and other ...

Shipwrecked Bone-tired, salt-sprayed for years exhaustion washed longing from my body. I listen for a siren and welcome rocks. ...

"God came; she saw; she conquered,” said Jesus. When asked about the meek and all the other blessed people, his mom wouldn't elabo...

John and I used this poem, among other props, to discuss my guilt. He says I am constantly surveying the landscape, the walls around me, the...

Corona Tambora erupts and smears chrome yellow all over. The sun blurs behind storm clouds. Yellow wind froths waves, and foam tumbles ...

The Tree Open the door and inside, the bible and prayer. I hear all the words and sprout leaves. I don’t want to bear more fruit but I...

I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnabl...

Sledgehammer I confided to my friend another okcupid faux pas. Still about Jack-- Still disclosing the crime that killed him. She said ...

I'd been hearing this advice from various quarters (The Joy of Living, John, my Saturday poetry workshop even gave us homework to obs...

Towards the end of our session, John miraculously pulled these lines out of his mind, recalled from his college days, about the labor of po...

I committed to Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rilke's: Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary head with eyes l...

According to Yongey Mingyur, who quotes other Rinpoches authoritatively, emptiness is absolute and pregnant with infinite possibilities. He...

the happiness project my tears run all over the linoleum floor they spill over thresholds and window sills and seep through cracks ...

I had a good session with John on Tuesday. 2 good cries about Jack. "You were happy when you were with Jack. You loved Jack." I ...

Part of this Happiness Project is writing. I started that this morning. I have a Prologue and a Chapter 1 completely in mind--they could alm...

Be Here Now! Live in the Moment! Killingsworth has some data to back that up. From moment to moment experiences in real lives. At m...