Tagged: swim
fake it till you make
fake it till you make
it – these and other stories
are the water we
breathe, the air we swim in, the
myths they sell us for a deal
.
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year after year, we
year after year, we
hold tighter to these
memories
that threaten to swim
farther
and farther out,
testing their range
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: memories
between renting and
between renting and
owning is an impossible
leap – new york city
swimming ceaselessly in its snow
globe of glittery currency
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: leap
let us not forget
let us not forget
this feeling, even when we
have not quite
identified it – a gelatinous
persuasion of guilt
if you do and
guilt if you don’t –
stuck treading
words that have been
said, flutter kicking
into words that have
been left unsaid
.
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without meaning to,
without meaning to,
memories get squeezed into
feelings – when you pass
me in aisle five, i am a
swan dive away from buoyant
.
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youth blinks and misses,
youth blinks and misses,
summers by the water’s edge,
my brother and me
.
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because you taught
because you taught
our best
memories to
float first, there’s
no fear
in drowning
.
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there are words you
there are words you
wish you can say only
in water – words from
which you can swim
away, as if you didn’t
know how they
surfaced, floating equal
distance between two
desperations still treading
allegiance, waiting
to be saved
.
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