Tagged: countless

mama’s gift

mama’s gift
that keeps
on giving –
a box of
japanese dried
anchovies – for
every dish,
every occasion,
ready to be
crunched,
not counted
.
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etrog marmalade

etrog marmalade
happening on the stove this
morning, countless seeds

collected in a bowl, waiting
for some kind of impossible
.
20230108:1230
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it is easier

it is easier
to find oneself on campaign
mode – twenty-eight days

and countless dice rolls later,
we know whom we are dealing with
.
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the constellation

the constellation
of hope and despair is densely
distributed – one

small tug undoes narratives
and countless mythologies
.
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it is stated in countless

it is stated in countless
handbooks and hazard
identification trainings
that whenever a dust
layer of as little as one-
thirty-second of an
inch accumulates,
immediate cleaning is
warranted to prevent
combustion. i had often
thought that somehow, this
pain would be
useful, drawing close
each layer like a
comforter, a coat,
an armor, a potential,
not knowing enough
about chemistry
and vents
and letting go
.
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to manage and hold

to manage and hold
simplicity, the universe
maps out new
configurations of
gears that must
turn with elegant
precision.
whether taking on
the city, the woods, or
each other, we do
the same thing –
listen intently
for only one
another’s clicks
.
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for every combination

for every combination
we try on each other,
there are
at least three
thousand and forty-
two that will no longer
work, one hundred and
sixty-three that will
never work, seventy-
one that will elicit a single
click, and an infinite
number of
combinations
we will still be willing
and sometimes
saving to try
.
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three hundred and

three hundred and
sixty degrees of
forgetting is made
of this kind of
stuff – gossamer
wings and rather
decisive
kisses. countless
rehearsals
later, all
the waiting
glances off
.
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