Tag: foot

• please ask me to
  kill for you ask
  me to imprint
  each foot with the
  ridges of my
  best teeth ask me
  to comb the clouds
  into candy
  for the joy of
  toothless trash cans
  throughout the land

  February 3, 2023

  candy, clouds, foot, teeth, trash cans

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• down smooth stone steps crumble the story hide it under a centipede’s unused foot walk home shedding your skin like the moon the next morning build a fire unlock all the doors

  February 1, 2023

  doors, fire, foot, moon, steps, story

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• as I write with one foot
  stuck in dark mud the other

  unresponsive for reasons
  I can’t discover lights

  flicker throughout the day I’m
  more full of fewer thoughts with

  air enough for me to ascend
  the brilliant sharp mountain

  I have kept my pockets empty for
  I have kept my back straight against through

  years of small work and I
  see the check on its way

  before I’ve ordered it’s my fault
  I should have gotten here as soon as

  the neighbors finished dancing
  on our ceiling and the sky

  changed to business casual blue so with
  my knuckles sore I crack another nut

  but what if one thought survives
  somehow the pressure of space

  as the small stones crawl from the sea
  wall after the grey is gone

  and we work into the overhyped
  night sponsored by what you would rather

  remember a castle visited
  through a dream that always asks too much

  August 24, 2022

  air, back, castle, ceiling, check, day, foot, lights, mountain, mud, night, pockets, sea wall, space, stones, thoughts, work

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• such energy though these eyes still blurry

  but the day begins early & takes the blame

  for every flattened patch of fur on the highway

  for the last two weeks and what do I know I

  wasn’t there but you feel the flies surround

  you & maybe we got off on the wrong

  foot and maybe that’s all there is now

  in the still heart of the great machine a

  few sparks with dances to come and yes we

  can agree that I use the word too often

  but it’s still the right one for the job and

  out in the forest it sniffs a mushroom

  and moves on since the field guide’s at home and

  doesn’t want to take any chances

  June 29, 2022

  blame, dances, day, energy, eyes, field guide, flies, foot, fur, highway, machine, mushroom, sparks

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• if going for gnomic you gnaw off your foot plastic roses

  December 31, 2021

  foot, gnomic

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