Tagged: stress
first impressions run
first impressions run
deep – we keep remembering
one another just
as we were and not as we
have become, pressed by the world
.
20220504:1941
y
we are pressed for
we are pressed for
time in immeasurable
moments, believing
that we can always
feel expansive later
.
20211226:1904
y
it is looking more and
it is looking more and
more likely that
we have been weighing
the wrong things, counting
and measuring
that which is
not easily
quantifiable, things we
can’t wrap our heads
around. we have
disassociated, splintered,
fractured ourselves for
too long to contain
so much, we can’t
be reliable data
within these set
values, even words
are no longer
enough, nor
meaningful
.
20211106:0449
y
here we are, under
here we are, under
close inspection, even closer,
taunting us to burst
.
20190227:2212
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: inspection
allow us to spend
allow us to spend
a bit of the day counting
sheep, for a fixed peace
.
20180711:2107
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: sheep
three hundred and eight
three hundred and eight
hoops later, we are still bending
the knees, lengthening
the calf muscles, rotating
our ankles to meet the mark
.
20170606:1759
y
the heart, troubled, can
we are all one
we are all one
another’s super-
heroes, there is no
doubt – when it’s
not you, it’s me,
caught waiting
for a release
.
20160112:0825
y
soon after the new
soon after the new
year, there is a heaviness
that comes with being
weightless for so long, or is
it the other way around?
.
20160110:1053
y
there’s another version
there’s another version
of us, a catch and
release, one in which
we are both
experts, armed
only with barbless
hooks. maybe we pose
for a photograph,
but we leave
no other
remnants –
no stress nor injuries –
with eighty-seven percent
chance of survival
.
20160106:0756
y
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