Tagged: stuck

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

invitations and

invitations and
save-the-dates and did-you-knows
and public service

announcements and founds and also
losts all find their way here, stuck
.
20220415:2003
y

perhaps a third of

perhaps a third of
us have been chewed up and spat
out by the city,

waiting to be stepped on and stuck
to someone on his way up
.
20220303:2012
y

maybe grief is

maybe grief is
simply waiting
for wanting
to pass.
the way
out is always
tricky, devised
as revolving
doors – we
can’t hold the
door for each
other lest we
get stuck
.
20211220:0020
y

sometimes you have to

sometimes you have to
get comfortable with getting
stuck in order to

become unstuck. it’s a tried
and true formula – letting go
.
20211020:1934
y

some days, reaching up

every tragedy

every tragedy
forces us into tunnel
vision – it takes a

community to draw us
back out, save us from ourselves
.
20210405:2000
y

art for art for art’s

art for art for art’s
sake cannot escape from the
white gaze, cannot be

separated from who you
know, does not have that luxury
.
20210305:2047
y

on green lake, for a

on green lake, for a
moment, we are held by the
summer heat and our

engine sputtering a call-
and-response to the ripples
.
20190810:1351
y

** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: sputtering

in every moment

in every moment
of forgetting, hearts splinter,
words look for throats in

which to get caught, hands clasp and
unclasp, learn to build bridges
.
20170912:2023
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