Tagged: ache
love isn’t easy –
love isn’t easy –
you and i,
staring into
the abyss,
an unforgivable
ache
.
20220622:2131
y
this morning’s elbows
this morning’s elbows
wake up sour, waiting for me
to give them a new
placement in the randomized
assignments of limbs on bed
.
20210811:0525
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listening to old
listening to old
taiwanese songs in mom’s kitchen,
reaching towards an
old ache, real and imagined,
melancholy in our bones
.
20210624:1824
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perhaps when we add
perhaps when we add
up all of our privileges,
it makes sense that we
can spend an afternoon, aching
with an indefinable pain
.
20180816:0752
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saturday, you were
saturday, you were
out of this world and into
the next one – every
door ached, window wept, chimney sighed,
we held on so we wouldn’t slip
.
20180305:2138
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there are aches in my
there are aches in my
body i can no longer
ignore. every year
we grow older, a new trail
of bread crumbs beckons us home
.
20180116:0120
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to iron out a
to iron out a
stubborn wrinkle requires time,
a night of snow, a
whistling teapot, enough
layers to shake loose the ache
.
20171218:1537
y
on day eighty-five,
remember that year
remember that year
when we lost so
many… was the
joy ever worth
the long
aches afterwards?
everyone tries
these words
in their mouths
many times before
spitting them out.
they’re unswallowable
by any muscles
so the human spirit
keeps taking the bait
.
20170429:2327
y
it is getting to
it is getting to
the point that we are waking
up more often than
not, having slept wrong, there is an
unidentifiable ache
.
20170228:0733
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