Tagged: life
after a while, life
after a while, life
overlaps, retraces steps
even to move for-
ward, trips into dna
mutations, finds a way back
.
20210428:2102
y
finally, spring is
finally, spring is
peeking over the hedges, and
you have decided
to give up, let go, peel away
from this corporal suffering
.
20210330:2057
y
whomever said lambs
whomever said lambs
to the slaughter had little
imagination
of the cruelty that men could
inflict upon other men
.
20210322:0830
y
watching scallions grow
watching scallions grow
tall by the windowsill – signs of
life in quarantine
.
20210208:1922
y
at any given
at any given
moment, i pick up a
memory at the
lost and found, turn
it over and over
to locate where i
may have hidden a
signature, measure
the half-life of the
grooves, in the Y,
the L, weigh its
tickle factor, look
for the nearest
trading post
.
20210123:0021
y
perhaps people rarely
perhaps people rarely
die for good causes –
it’s what the living
clings to to sell
us a tarnished
past, an endurable
present, a
promising future
.
20210122:2337
y
even in the key
even in the key
of hopelessness, we listen for
a cymbal of hope
.
20210122:2251
y
some days i lose you
some days i lose you
to the unexplainables –
it takes two to let
time slip between the doodads,
get caught on the thingamajigs
.
20201229:0108
y
circumstance is a
circumstance is a
word that takes up
space on the page
that flaps around
in your mind.
the truth of the
matter is
if circumstances
were any
different, we
would still
find ourselves
here, hands tied,
longing for
the sake of
longing
.
20201229:0052
y
the first december
the first december
in the new old home, we have
become privy to
the twilight dialogues between
the heat pipes crossing households
.
20201213:0647
y
