Can you remember, If you put forth the effort, The sound of the church bells ringing? I’ve tried and toiled, To muster all the effort I can afford, But all I hear is the, Dull echo of a song not … Continue reading Keepin’ quiet is easier
I was born at sea; Atop an ocean, constantly and quietly pulsing, Like a mother’s heartbeat, Too quiet to hear but loud enough to feel. My fate, Freshly woven, Was that of all the (wo)men you’ve never met, The champion … Continue reading The Sedentary Sailor’s Shan’ty
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When they landed on their planet (Which was ours up until then) We couldn’t stop ourselves from talking About the beauty of their skin It was skin as if the night sky Were dipped… Continue reading The Angels
ilking negatives and nonplussed sorting plus signs pausing on the positives and filing scooping the minuses in a big white wheelbarrow shoveling black plus signs fast but not Continue reading
shorn light unencumbered crystal vision render under windful willow branches can’t you catch the cancer and bottle it like a national park, can’t you see numbers, see why knots Continue reading
standing still the same in different bones rain came the same way it rains at home translucency and powdered donuts like stuffed smoke rings stuff the wooden bowls you keep upstairs in your brainmatter my dream’s a quantum seeming an itchy unseaming … Continue reading a real dream, according to science
if nature’s stained-glass ceilings glitter it’s our natural eyes’ delight alighting up if arbor’s ardor clambors for our ears to hear upon a dank, red eclipse-night (if and only if dark nature feels right) it’s because our twin conditions entwine … Continue reading nature sonnet
