Tag: Being Human

  • A Gentle Reprieve To Just Exist

    I stopped pouring my water into the River.

    Just for ten minutes.

    I stopped dipping my pitcher in it,

    stopped taking allotments of that cool course

    and stopped returning it shifted and warmer than before,

    yet the River kept flowing.

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  • Hostile Architecture

    Quelled desperate escapes from endless races, headcases

    with stinging breaths and the light-headedness of steady paces,

    pagans promenading toward golden idylls

    while lavish lifestyles embolden their fated faces

    bound by choking golden bridles.

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  • Pinewood

    There was a second

    where the world stopped in its tracks

    in the last place it should have stopped,

    a set of polished-oak booths

    for one across from one.

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