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when snow melts

it used to be easy to write about you but now these words come hard and with endings and the worn use of used to’s * the world was white but your cheeks were red a display of you trying to warm the outside or just my insides with a joke that makes the clouds laugh … Continue reading

rocking wood

i am your grandmother’s armchair and also your grandmother with good advice and cooking if you let me let you if me to learn that your grandmother once wanted as you did and may have snatched me up if you don’t and the chair certainly will after a time of you doing and don’ting for … Continue reading

kneel arms weak

you are the moon against the night not quite seen and never understood until i land in the reflection as a small feat of human ingenuity and careless poems that look for softness in the empty spots and after finding them reading some of lines i’ve bounced around to and listening to you bounce back i realize … Continue reading

sun soaked

apologies future generations we were too busy offing the world and writing apologies that we didn’t have time to think of you and y(our) problems * a breath away from your body under orange sky streaking a naked blue pure untouched waiting for the little bit of an exhalation that’ll eventually form a cloud or … Continue reading

global worming

the world has no ambition and for this reason most people blend in the background as stones and weeds you have to climb or cut   ditch them look to the sun its goal is to burn the world alive do the same by living in heat and trying to freeze the sun if only … Continue reading

neige

i’ve been thinking of the silent winter that buries and brings quiet and darkness with enough gray weight that even my closed eyes cannot match for they are too warm while around all freezes into goodbyes until i open like hands holding hands missing the one that made them fall in love with flesh softer … Continue reading

room with room

winter, fall or spring summer either way stop * huffs escaping into the cold a cloud fitting you a bit misfigured but so were you when you asked how you looked and i said pretty just to get into the heat of the bar with strangers pulsing to the same rhythm of what is this … Continue reading

the middle stanza

the subway sea chugs on while i snorkel air from the outside wondering what fish i’ll smell this time and whether its just me soaked with this place and its people who gasp scream for help i’m drowning i can’t swim there was just too much to do i was always so busy so full … Continue reading

pre-cambrian post-apocalypse

meteors will collide safety pins will poke relationships will fail and before and after the small, hand-worn apocalypses that make you let go and make dinosaurs extinct you’ll only ever find you finding you and inside a hope that you are enough for you for everyone else has died from the meteors or the pins … Continue reading

whisky sour

i held the baby in my hands life breathing life but it was slippery or i was both of us nervous to meet meat it slipping onto the floor not wanting to be picked up like thanksgiving turkey i am hungry where’s the knife i am starving where’s the fork i have never eaten a … Continue reading