Tagged: insomnia
maybe symmetry
maybe symmetry
is overrated, we lie
awake at night,
counting the minutes
up and down the
hours, dreaming
of a balanced diet
.
20230131:2021
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between the walls of
between the walls of
our unit, the pipes are heating
up tonight, scatting
a rhythm familiar
only to the oldest tenants
.
20221210:0020
y
at the edge of sleep,
at the edge of sleep,
i am waiting for one of
your memories to
pull me down deeper, or is it
one of my memories, dead weight
.
20220630:0143
y
at the end of the
at the end of the
night, i store all of these pinpricks
in my heart, absorbed,
melted down into coarser,
even coarser elements, pray
.
20220421:0147
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the people we know
the people we know
and love, loved, still love are quite
easily the same
people who shoot to kill – warning:
not-an-intruder alert
.
20220421:0137
y
no data for this
no data for this
period is a salve, a
sign, a red flag, an
opening, an invitation,
an absence, a veiled presence
.
20220421:0128
y
quarter keeping score,
quarter keeping score,
the neighbor and i wake each
other up in the
night, toilet flushing, floorboards
creaking, a simmering silence
.
20220327:0410
y
we lose track, lose touch,
we lose track, lose touch,
can’t find our way back to one
another, stumble
towards purpose, meander
for a meaning, hands growing numb
.
20210818:0416
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some memories are
some memories are
still magnetic, pulling you
away from sleep – in
the middle of the night, new
reflections obscure the message
.
20210606:1038
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