Tagged: sugar
in times of crisis,
in times of crisis,
we build a community –
to borrow and share
sugar, flour, this rake, our
best pruning shears, a pitch fork
.
20210112:1923
y
perhaps we are all
perhaps we are all
waiting for our favorite
candy to fall from
the sky, and when placed on our
tongue, can at last provide release
.
20200707:1848
y
on the first day of
on the first day of
autumn, dad’s hummingbirds are
still fighting over
every drop of deliverance,
a sugary endeavor
.
20170922:2036
y
i fill these moments
i fill these moments
with sugar, enough sugar
to preserve them for
at least a decade, maybe
longer, long after we are dead
.
20170402:2258
y
when we are
when we are
together, the minutes
are spun inside each
hour into cotton
candy, and the
day twirls, leaving
a sweet residue
.
20161120:2250
y
the future is layered
a golden afternoon
a golden afternoon
breaks off like
pumpkin bread –
brown sugar
sweet, walnut
toasted, a
suggested
surprise, and –
near the end,
a sort of
crumbling
of light
.
20111012:0835
y
youth should be
youth should be
made with ample
confidence, a
dash of salt, two
shakes of sugar,
a sprig of
summer,
and plenty of
time
.
20110610:1855
y
all night, snow
all night, snow
brushes up
against my
sleep, dusting
a dreaming
cityscape with
spring sugar
.
20110322:2127
y
precisely
precisely
in unison
slipping into
December
every hint
of brown sugar
.
20101212:2343
y
