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the fallen

the following is small but huge and still, somehow, average. * she left not because you weren’t enough but because she wanted less of you   you were abundance the sun a lake summer   but winter always arrives

sum

the following is the aftermath of promising to never do poetry again. the following is also not poetry. * when was the last time you stopped measuring the length of now the instant between when things were figured out and when they were not how often you would say um not for a filler but … Continue reading

late this month

worn by soft light, you say your heart is heavy. the sky is coated in cold gray, neutered with smoke. i cannot see out my window. you grip my hands tighter, ask don’t you see, kacper, look at how good this news is. i try. in front is you, the colour of the earth, the … Continue reading

stray

you said that he was love, that he was tough too, that he would teach you the soft poetry you could use in a knife fight. there was some blood. it was inevitable of course. he was a dog person. big pit bulls. those that would bark at you but coo under him. he said … Continue reading

seconds

you will first come to understand her. you will begin to look across the room for her. you will hold her head like night nestles the stars, tired from being the only light that cracks through. you will tell her that she is the only her. you will love her. you will buy her things. … Continue reading

tea please

let it be told that i fell in love with a cloud. let it be told that it was a tuesday, that it hung like rain without it. fluff dipped under a happy blue sky. the edges were headed to the future. years ago i eyed it not knowing what it would become. there was … Continue reading

at first sight

so it was love and now what it is isn’t bad either   standing in a stuck room waiting for lights   listening to a door explaining that the only real thinking left to do is in your dreams   seeing morning crawl over what used to be a mountain but now is a mall … Continue reading

pee(p)

i’ll be a minute one second just need to go to the bathroom to make that smile once more that feeling of being filled with light generous warmth that eats into me devours me consumes my body whole for i have let you in again to knowingly and timelessly ruin my life once more * … Continue reading

i didn’t hear that dear

lay me in between the arms of your doubt and your sleep keep me close when there is no love even if tonight we are lovers consider me in the curl of a question mark when you are huddled trying to learn how to hold tight in spring eaten by the heat and the leaking … Continue reading

here now together

it has all been about the unsaid sayings like how the cat is shitting poetry how a dry hand trails the tail or how you are meowing another’s name   how no one listens to the last words of a sunset when a war roars on how an opiate holds onto the scraps of a … Continue reading