Tagged: practice
a meditation
a meditation
on chicken skewers – select
your entry point, pierce
through so gently there is time
to adjust your fingers, repeat
.
20230515:2014
y
spring fluctuating
spring fluctuating
as the pepper plants practice
adapting outside
.
20230418:2107
y
at the airport, good-
at the airport, good-
bye is an exercise we
practice and practice –
at the terminal, at the
gate, on the lonely walk home
.
20230411:2019
y
maybe leveling
maybe leveling
up requires a sacrifice,
a death for which we
need not grieve –
we are practicing
taking off our
armor in front of
each other, one
heavy piece at a time –
the sudden lightness
unbalances us
.
20230302:1710
y
we practice because
we practice because
we have to – we get better by
the luck of the draw
.
20221205:2319
y
new neurons bump
new neurons bump
into older neurons,
triggering mental and
muscular gymnastics,
stumbling across
the language of liszt’s
la campanella,
accepting that
a mountain is taller
than a mountain
.
20221111:1157
y
selecting the next
selecting the next
piece for piano practice
is a task – valse du
petit chien wound up to chase
its own tail, indefinitely
.
20221108:1843
y
mom is playing the
mom is playing the
piano on a summer
afternoon, daddy
and i secretly listen
in so she doesn’t get nervous
.
20220901:1701
y
we practice coiling
we practice coiling
rope for the journey ahead –
long or short, no one
wants to wind up stuck, undoing
a knot formed by carelessness
.
20220707:1911
y
years of practicing
years of practicing
empathy just to survive –
these makeshift feelings
.
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