Tagged: distance
forever is a
forever is a
mere glance away from what is
right in front of you
.
20221223:1151
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birds grow suspicious
birds grow suspicious
when a camera lens is pointed
at them – fifty-six
yards, binocular vision
to binocular vision
.
20220613:2030
y
between the old man
between the old man
snoring and the younger man
pacing the wooden
floorboards from above, we learn to
coexist, one night at a time
.
20220215:0545
y
pain stretches across
pain stretches across
all distances – we pretend
we can shake it off
while rounding this marker or
that marker – it ain’t that easy
.
20220106:2029
y
in the early days of
in the early days of
discovering
teleportation, people flocked
in and out of
cities, towns, endangered
ecosystems, any
place they could
imagine.
not even six months
in, people began
to make up new and old
excuses for why they
couldn’t drop in on
loved ones, spend any
more time than before
teleportation – tractor-beam
malfunction, severed spatial
eliminator widgets, quantum
dissociation syndrome,
the cost, work, dog duties.
the excuses couldn’t
have imagined better
champions, we can
stop imagining teleportation
.
20211109:1858
y
across the distance
across the distance
of countless shores, feelings get
clogged up, polluted
by proximate priorities –
we wait to be pulled closer
.
20210821:1422
y
you are
you are
gone, and we
are oceans
away, separated
by a global
pandemic, mandated
group quarantine, time,
electromagnetic
frequencies, and
chemical structure –
the x, y, and z of
everyday coordinates
dissolve into more,
even more
dimensions as
memories discharge
.
20210810:2125
y
with distance comes a
with distance comes a
mysterious fondness – we
are made of nothing
but hope, hope, hope – transcending
time, best interests, and reason
.
20210711:1111
y
maybe we all long
maybe we all long
to understand the distances
between our mutual
universes – like fruits looking
yonder on an adjacent frond
.
20210618:1856
y
in the middle of
in the middle of
a pandemic, wondering
what restoration
feels like is a privilege
reserved for the back of the line
.
20210102:1316
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