We were two spirals,
two incongruent maelstroms inside,
confined and trying to get past our minds.
But the lines we threw
just wouldn’t align that night,
as I ran from speaking to you all last night
(more…)We were two spirals,
two incongruent maelstroms inside,
confined and trying to get past our minds.
But the lines we threw
just wouldn’t align that night,
as I ran from speaking to you all last night
(more…)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.
(more…)This secluded grove we’ve planted
far away from raucous roads
in the former plot of our buried bones
is starting to sprout and bloom
(more…)Living in a fake world, I’ve almost forgot
a place beyond my head exists and its inhabitants change,
but I can put down that real world whenever I want.
(more…)How did it make me see you
when we rewound tapes that made you?
“Only more positively.”
How easy, how vague,
how very unlike the tapes that we gave,
how very unlike the shaping wounds we replayed,
so let me try to explain.
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