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Silence
When this house is still silence will become the weight of unspoken things Want more early drafts of poems I may never finish? Your friends might want…
Mar 9
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February 2024
Where the Past Shivered Free of the Future
Think about the child, he said Think about the past Think about the memories that last These things are not cut off they are left to grow against the…
Feb 18
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Forever
Forever is the fingers of a skeleton pointing toward doom Forever is the shadow over everything The stutter in your step and in your heart The moments…
Feb 3
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January 2024
Somewhere the Moon Sang
Somewhere the moon sang me to sleep while I with a glittering eye lay fallow using my moments to buy time Over the ocean the moon became a star as smoke…
Jan 28
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December 2023
Automatic Writing
The silence of the mind letting go to hold onto things I cannot see This is the end of all things The slow dark descent into other things I can see less…
Dec 26, 2023
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November 2023
The Moment
Taking the long way home feels like stolen time Moments on the edge of today no one can see, no one can know This tap like a wick to fuel Like a…
Nov 24, 2023
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Lines to Different People
Somewhere there is a sky I am not looking at Somewhere there is dirt in a yard with a small fence Somewhere there is a beautiful girl in a small house…
Nov 4, 2023
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October 2023
Scale
Mud puddles like tiny lakes that drain through tiny rivers and are carried away Rain like an incessant drum while the smaller creatures play in oceans…
Oct 29, 2023
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I Wish For Cool Air But Nothing Moves
The sheets like a prison I think I need The cat like a guard ready to strike if I try to inch my way out No wind through chimes No dogs bark No night…
Oct 14, 2023
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September 2023
Tree With Birdhouse
This injury on my side doesn't even attract life-- a hole attached to my torso by holes and nothing wants to fill the void-- not bees not birds not even…
Sep 30, 2023
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Petals
Petals on the ground like snowflakes discarded by the sky and turned pink like the ruin of a thousand thoughts that blossom and dwell on the bones in…
Sep 20, 2023
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July 2023
The Fade
All I see are the faded faces and the gray skin hanging loose in all the wrong ways like turkeys' waddles or fish trying to breathe on land Behind their…
Jul 29, 2023
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