Henry Ponder

I do not find these thoughts, these thoughts find me. I try to write them down nicely.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Serious runner runs towards me, scowling, imperious. Behind them their ponytail dances, waving, a lot less serious.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

MORSEL is a word I like to I picture in my mind. I watch its letters drift apart; I watch all sense of it unwind.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

I am turkey, I am absurd, but come Christmas, I am the No.1 bird. After 364 days of being ignored comes the day I am finally adored.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

How many is several? Is it more than a couple? Less than a few? Surely, some quantitative certainty is due.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Our socks grip our calves like fierce little beasts, but we bear the dull leg ache for a warm foot's sake.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

I meet another Henry and he’s nothing like me. Why are we both called Henry if there’s no commonality? He behaves like a Jim. Rename him.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Am I stuck in the clothes I perish in when I become a ghost? Or can I spend my afterlife in the clothes I cherish the most?

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

I like tai chi, and I like chai tea. They both bring equal contentment to me.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Every so often my freezer shudders, reminding me that it's there, and that it's old, and that it's probably cold.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Small car, don't sit there wishing you were a vast car or a fast car. You're good just the way you are

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Bodybuilder, when you lift your weights, you have such fury in your face. The world has too much anger. Put your weights down, work it out.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

A flying leaf slaps me in the eye, sticks to my face then takes off apace and flies back up to the sky.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Conditioner starts with con and shampoo starts with sham. Is haircare just one big frothy scam?

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Grain in the wood in the floor in the hall, swirling, whirling and twirling, performing the slowest, most beautiful dance of all.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

I do not fear advancing years with wrinkly skin and hairy ears, when my youth was so gangly and uncouth.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Running down the spiral staircase two steps at a time I feel elation, I feel like the foremost staircase athlete of my generation.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Think of a puddle as a miniature lake, as a miniature chance to stand beside its miniature shores, and contemplate.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

What is fame? A rollercoaster game that takes you higher than you ought to be to let you down inevitably. It’s not for me.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

Yes I'm a human being, but a human being what? A human being aware that being a human is his lot.

[Henry Ponder @henryponder]

I remember this gate when it was young, before it was weathered and worn. In the same way, it may remember me.