Tagged: numbers
you said the river
you said the river
can heal itself if we give
it time – it’s never
a perfect formula when
variables are missing
.
20210128:2013
y
we are ninety-three
we are ninety-three
traditions away from under-
standing each other,
sixty excuses from trying,
one yield away from accepting
.
20201217:2047
y
whoever said that
whoever said that
the potato to lefse
ratio should be
five to fourteen may
not have factored in
the ones that never
made it to the table
.
20201130:1145
y
eight-hundred-sixty-
eight-hundred-sixty-
six miles away from home is
not the same as eight-
thousand miles from home – we use
language as a warm blanket
.
20200915:1821
y
every moment is
(for mom on your birthday)
every moment is
golden – on the second of
your three birthdays this
year, we celebrate the whimsy,
wind ourselves up for the third
.
20200710:2115
y
perhaps eighty-nine
perhaps eighty-nine
percent of the decisions
we make based on fear
are poor ones – knowing this and
still doing it is human
.
20200303:0707
y
for every one
for every one
individual resisting
what is, there are one
hundred and one
of the masses
willing to
wear a button
for the resistance
.
20191017:0722
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: resistance
at the intersection
at the intersection
where we cross under
the b.q.e., fifty-plus
birds signaling no
stopping anytime,
fifty-plus birds
trying to shake off
the weekend
competition
.
20190224:2033
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: competition
ten out of ten, love
ten out of ten, love
chooses to connect the dots,
associate where
associations are not
readily made, extrapolate
.
20180127:2029
y
