Tagged: counting
here comes month nineteen
here comes month nineteen
and a complementary
lost numbness, walking
.
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i was never good
i was never good
at guessing the number of
jelly beans in a
jar, and so began the habit
of counting everything else
.
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nine months and counting,
nine months and counting,
we wait to be reborn into
some semblance of a
post-pandemic world – the end
is clearly not at all in sight
.
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even now, we are
even now, we are
counting up and counting down –
the wait, our lives spent
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: counting
maybe there were three
maybe there were three
more sirens than there used to be
in the middle of
the night, even in brooklyn, we
started counting, newly alert
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: alert
on day 104
on day 104
or 105, in between
counting and waiting,
there will be seconds when i
will forget that i am waiting
.
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on day eighty-five,
this morning, on day
this morning, on day
seventy-eight, the waning
gibbous moon stayed up
long enough to laugh at me,
or console – its face was so smooth
.
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by day’s end, we are
by day’s end, we are
two naps away from
a full recovery,
two or three steps
from the sea
.
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on the lunar
(for grandpa)
on the lunar
calendar, we
are celebrating
our birthdays
today, just one
world away
from each
other,
which feels
like multitudes,
on and off
the system
for counting
so many days
apart
.
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