Bill Pearse

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• First time hearing Can with my percussionist friend, Loren

  By Bill Pearse on January 27, 2019 • ( 7 )

  How many memories do you keep in a jar on that shelf? Here’s one from my 20s, driving across a bridge at night with the stereo up loud. Were we out of our minds high on the energy of our… Read More ›

• “Little time”

  By Bill Pearse on January 26, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  In the late, gray January morn you have already moved on. Though the evergreens stand like Japanese watercolors in the fog, you’re making breakfast in your mind, making plans for the day. Though springtime stirs, but has hit the snooze—… Read More ›

• 4:59, Friday

  By Bill Pearse on January 25, 2019 • ( 14 )

  In my time of darkness I go back to the old haunts, to Raymond Carver: I closed the book and he looked back, and in the morning spoke to me on the toilet, in my bathrobe with my phone: He… Read More ›

• Two-faced Janus

  By Bill Pearse on January 23, 2019 • ( 7 )

  It felt lighter in the afternoon than it should, for this time of day. January turns itself around like that. The gardener came for the first time in a while, worked his ass off raking beds, blowing down the pavement,… Read More ›

• The sandtrap

  By Bill Pearse on January 22, 2019 • ( 9 )

  There was not much new to the new year now, it seemed. Driving across the state, I ate a bag of wasabi-flavored smoked almonds in about 30 minutes, taking it by the handful, popping them one by one, wiping the… Read More ›

• Sunday’s flattened head

  By Bill Pearse on January 20, 2019 • ( 12 )

  On the five-hour drive to Brad’s cabin I kept it cool in the car to stay awake, to keep my cold tolerance up. Driving across the state to the east, how it all flattens to farmlands and big skies, windmills,… Read More ›

• The day I turned purple (2019)

  By Bill Pearse on January 12, 2019 • ( 28 )

  After 10 days without drinking, the swelling in my lower gut finally went down. A balloon losing air. On Monday I was offered a new job, and on Friday I turned in my laptop and said goodbye. The January bugs… Read More ›

• Peace and distance

  By Bill Pearse on January 11, 2019 • ( 13 )

  On the day Bowie died, I drove from Stratford to a small town where I met Tish Farrell, a blogger friend. She made lunch and we talked about writing and traveling, and then I said goodbye and drove back down… Read More ›

• Launch

  By Bill Pearse on January 9, 2019 • ( 10 )

  In the morning when Dawn starts the electric kettle it sounds like a rocket about to launch, slowly building pressure until it snaps free from the launch pad and lifts off. She pulls it down by the handle and sets… Read More ›

• A different plane

  By Bill Pearse on January 4, 2019 • ( 2 )

  Life has led me here. Charlotte climbed down the steps from her bunk bed, and went downstairs to the kitchen. The dog circled and collapsed by our bed. Outside, the wind kicked up and the rain came on.  I reflected… Read More ›

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