what if we’d never
what if we’d never
sits in a box on the top
shelf, waiting to be
picked up, delivered, another
useless trinket for the masses
.
20240111:0417
y
maybe the first thing
maybe the first thing
to go is not sound, but the
sensation of that
unique pressure, thousands of nerve
endings responding to your lips
.
20240110:2314
y
on the one hand, i
on the one hand, i
keep going. on the other hand,
i keep going. don’t
put too much weight on that coin toss –
heads or tails, we all lose something
.
20240110:2304
y
at first light, dad and
at first light, dad and
i set out to meet the sunrise
once in a blue moon
.
20240110:2039
y
it comes in waves, our
it comes in waves, our
harmonious chaos, crashes
as one against the
everyday, collapses into
infinite permutations
.
20240109:2115
y
the looks you recalled
the looks you recalled
us receiving and the longing
i remembered us
ignoring crossed
paths on the eighth
of forever, too
preoccupied to perhaps
notice, wave
.
20240109:0657
y
ever so often,
ever so often,
we dangle our hearts over
the edge while hanging
on to one another, no
safety net, just a promise
.
20240108:1945
y
because i love you,
because i love you,
it doesn’t matter if you
write or don’t write – the
ratio of i to you
hinges
on a cultivated
silence
.
20240108:1315
y
at some point, we can
at some point, we can
begin to take power for
granted, and even
a blown fuse down the line can
no longer trigger a reset
.
20240107:2152
y
we traveled halfway
we traveled halfway
around the world to see a
different kind of deer
than the white-tailed friends watching us
from our yard – curious humans
.
20240106:1801
y
y 