what hope in this pen and an ink
nearly invisible
earlier the morning sun on
the trees made me think of
large mammals and their humid scent
in the sun in the grass
the countable galaxies of
bright dew and now the chair
makes sarcastic music of my
musing but the night is
still and so wide without a moon
Tag Archives: ink
the ink smudge a tousled mountain range where I will live
(First published in Bones.)
enough ink for a single letter. Having lured the neighbor,
(First published in Heliosparrow.)
Having darkened my hand with dark ink in
an age when close and
distant are cloudy unaided having
made so much that no
body wants to eat I wait for the latest
historic storm and the
scrape and salt that wakes us too early
or too late
model mountains pen in
sugared cars I try to
lift the snow with a wave
of homemade rhythm into
sky like berries almost black
but do I fracture some rule with
this spell how many feet do I have
to long for long-lasting mud
and the birds who
visit though we won’t learn
their names this year
either but the tracks lead
to a curve turning
back on itself with a smile
the breath leaves
green leaves shake
so let’s finish off the crackers
and call them
cookies we can watch
a movie through the neighbor’s
window just
balance on this skull
in a smear of ink but let’s play
Yahtzee so tired of all my
jokes but how much for
anyway turn off the hearings
and listen to my stomach
full of primordial
soup for a bluer sky when
we all have a moment
to floss again and plant
some grain or at least
some new suspicions
if there’s no ink in autumn
a mouthful of berries to bed
the wrong way a rope
around both legs
Sunday afternoon while light won’t stop streaming past the sudden silence of unbroken bare trees and what apologies to make while the ink dries and the thinking machines reset in the year of our lady redacted
all day I thought I was some other day the ink seeped out starting with what in your chest before you can fly 1,000 years
snow starts
too much
ink in the pen
easter I fill a pen with green ink