what it's like...

to do this. this portugal thing.

1) sometimes, you force yourself to stay.
2) surfthechannel.com
3) conversations about fast food become really fun!
4) you become the neighborhood quandary.
5) people really like to help you. and eventually you learn to be helped.
6) you adopt strange music interests.
7) often, you say goodbye. lately it's been once a month.
8) you develop a healthy mistrust of hairdressers
9) boots in april/may seem perfectly normal.
10) you adopt a rolly, grocery bag thingy. mine's name is edith, she sports brown plaid.
11) you forget that the beach isn't a daily thing for most people.
12) if you are a girl and exercise, you are the anomaly in the park.
13) before bed, you place your cell phone and vonage phone within reach.
14) making life decisions seems ten times more difficult from here.
15) even "hi, carrie, bye!" from the nephews is priceless.
16) 55 cent coffee, 20 cent bread, 30 cent cookies
17) trying 50 types of yogurt in a year is sooooo fun!
18) your feet become strangely accustomed to jagged rocks underfoot.
19) that smell...oh, that's just the garlic seeping through their skin. ewwwww.
20) every month you stick it out, so incredibly worth it!

sem título...

green, except by the sea.
suddenly gray, water emerges.
quiet, except when not.
revisits treasures,
often disinterested in new.
ice cream, cup not cone.
likely to love,
equally to forget.
wooden floors,
for one purpose only.
summer chirping, autumn creak.
everything in place,
minus thursday's laundry.
sweeping locks behind ears,
2, 4, 6, 8...lots of holes.
(but likes the pain)
birthday present hymnal,
self-help library.
one brown puppy,
to share a twin-sized bed.
pão de deus,
com queijo e manteiga,
alarm clock cringe,
late night piddle.
laughter and pink cheeks,
pocket-full-of-posies.
grins for the sky and sea,
tears for the space between.
butterflies for plans unseen,
cloud 9 for the dream.