Tag Archives: simultaneity

Be Here Now, California (gaps included)

Posted on November 16, 2025 by jillbpearlman

Imagine, at this age, to have brought beginner’s mind to California.  Where have I been?  In the land of the skeptic, in France.  But what luck to have had California before me.  Full-on sensory discovery. Enthusiasm has a way of being boundless. (Forgive me … Continue reading →

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To Rachel, at 30

Posted on November 16, 2025 by jillbpearlman

Rachel is ecstatic, sparks of static electricity travelingto, from and between her and us She may have rubbed her back on a charged shag rug Yesterday her last sunset in her 20s5:04, only the sun’s orange cap, 5:05, cap sinks into … Continue reading →

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Google Says: Don’t Say Happy Memorial Day

Posted on May 27, 2024 by jillbpearlman

Memorial Day Morning birds loose a litany of reasons to be alive, to be young and tune their own chords having memorized the sounds of their parents, blowing an adolescent hornsquawking anointed sound. In this trumpeting of summer, the young death thing.Under … Continue reading →

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The Past, Fellow Traveler

Posted on August 13, 2023 by jillbpearlman

Sometimes the past is pressed against the present, or another present is present. While traveling in Europe you feel it like a veil of wind on your skin.  You scratch the surface, the past rises up through the transparency of summer.  Sometimes … Continue reading →

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