by Tim Girvin | May 17, 2011 | Diary
THE BRIGHT IDEA IS IT THAT THE GREAT IDEA IS A LIGHTNING STRIKE OR A BUILDING STORM? I was contemplating — the sequence of brilliant ideas — how they emerge, the sparking of them. Is it the storm that slowing builds an electrical charge, or could it be the...
by Tim Girvin | Mar 12, 2011 | Diary
THE CIRCLED WIND I went out in the early dark this morning, in the storm. Wind, rain, cold whipped round — circling. And I stood in the center of the storm. I dreamed of that, the wind, the circling. And I could taste the wet, the salt of the sea That turned in...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 20, 2010 | Diary
NOW, out there, the winds rip and ring the shore like cold waves, rippling. There is a sound in the trees, the waterline that is a rushing fury, I can hear it close, and I can hear it far — out there, up above, across the sounding body of water. The air is...
