Tagged: contemplation

a week away from

a week away from
you, and a week
ahead, i am
balancing the
two sides of
home, as if i were
somewhere
in an outer-
outer borough
.
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maybe for a couple

maybe for a couple
of months, it’ll hurt.
maybe for a couple
more, i’ll still
notice. after
that, the body
promises relief
and release – life
contemplates
death in bite-sized
servings, small
addicting
doses
to propel life
towards death
.
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the word don’t

there is pleasure in

there is pleasure in
fine-tuning a
need, perhaps
for the sound
of your
footsteps
returning
to the hallway –
shuffle,
pause, lift,
turn – even
the edges of
each floorboard
long for your weight
.
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every morning, i

every morning, i
carry over from dreaming
a trace of words, strike

them against one another,
hold my breath for one more spark
.
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no one has yet

no one has yet
isolated the
molecule, but
everyone suspect
it exists. what else
could consistently
carry, fold,
unfold, mend,
and polish,
at times lovingly,
these earliest
memories –
holding them
together
like a kind of
alphabet
for survival
.
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