The Banana Peel Project

atonal arrhythmia broke through the five o’clock fog today
and reminded me
that music is more than melody
my thoughts slowed to the speed of surprise
every moment, unmeasured
twenty moments per second, staggered by silence
the clouds scattering before my sonic sight
the latest in lithium ion battery technology
fused
with the ancient sun of Earth
and (if metaphors can touch this place)
shiny new […]

Green orange juice doesn’t taste like orange juice, even though food coloring is tasteless. If a bar of chocolate smells like a banana, you’d still probably say it smells like chocolate. Getting a tooth pulled is a lot more painful if you’re watching it happen in a mirror.
I think synesthesia is really interesting. […]

today i can’t help but listen, intently, to the color of change
wind wraps well around the edges of my ears
scratch and scuttle of last fall’s leaves on raked dirt
subtle sounds of sliding skeletons of preterite green
sliding softly and sticking to surfaces of unexpected rain puddles
pausing, my eyes blur to everything but the borders between
glistening golden […]