like a bird flying
past the window you
notice in the corner
of your no let’s
assume it was a bird and
the little early
spring flowers by
bending
down to
look blue
white purple you want to
reach for it
but don’t
want to scare
away that thought
running down the corridor
rattling
every knob
like one of the
doomed you
root for
in a horror movie
morning escapes
through newly empty air
acorns
the sun silently deifying crumbs on the table
scent of ripe apples when I would practice how to fly
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once the image has life an emptiness says
it will always be so I stare into the distance
blind to trees and flowers
begging to be born but the refrigerator hey
are we doing stream of consciousness
cool and the snow gets sharp in these
huge piles in the back of the lot
days later my handwriting
starts to rot never to recover
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suicide off the table you start working again
with a miniature saucepan and the clock trying
to rid the mind of all the rules you’ve
made &
feel your hand tight around the thick
rope now only good for that
silly exercise you love
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away from the neighbor’s dog
across stinging fields we grow
smaller so slowly we don’t
notice until grasshopper parts become
our yard sticks and blades
of grass jostle and topple us in this
dream-familiar landscape we
learn secrets of slow growth, the rootlike
lineages of wormkind and a love
of the sweetness that writhes up from
dark earth and we long to pass
it on to our children who have
grown monstrous in the orange light
that happy laughter in the distance always thin trees
those faithful plants I neglected still shelter my [redacted] even after the party is long gone the conversation buried in coarse sand
you mentioned that the fashion this year will be nothing but zippers and mismatched shoes so leave me out of it and let me sleep in the sweet green morning calls dropping dew
but at my back I sometimes hear Noel Fielding reciting bad poetry in my ear and
perhaps the goal is to write something that no forget it yes I see you noticed it too but went back to your puzzle so thanks for that
uneven rocks in mist stay quiet about destiny
Forget what you know sit softly
lulled by the sound of hundreds of
pens simultaneously writing down
your mistakes think of clouds
over that chasm you love
Forget the ad that is following you
keep sharpening your teeth into points
we’ll see if we can find a knife and a few
layers of breathable fabric as you
start off stinging wind your boot brittle
grass bright crunch beneath
Forget it and start again don’t think of pathogens
the tickle in your throat give the pills a chance
outside flashes of red flowers one ant
carries his scrap of stone down into the dark
as you donate blood in Connecticut
a small soft yacht to squeeze
