Tag: poetry
-
Brown Elephant
where we deposit all sins of excess, failed solutions, self-lies to find their next hatching. You absorb each one without judgment, our grandmother buddha, tenderly ignoring the endless missteps worked by this scrum of larkers. We spin on, sneak your cookies, refuse to sit still. Through it all, you maintain your meditative hour, at the…
-
Prayer
(upon learning of a friend’s violent death) i allow me to pause to rearrange my heart, its sinews, tissue, the rhythm it takes while I walk this street now, all making way for a new configuration you being gone in an instant, in the heat of that strangling hour give me some time yet to…
-
Winter
open water, patches of sleet chunks, rolling skin, long stretches of ice sheets deluding us that underneath lies still — exoskeleton of gray, silver, blue, black rising and falling while breath moves under and through, amniosis seeping, small curls along the shoreline where warmth? hidden dark into the churning below, gestating secrets birthed slowly with…
-
Stopping by lakefront on my way home
I always think it’s aspens here but maybe it’s cottonwoods you can’t really tell unless the seeds are falling and we are way past that now. Between the leaves flipping and knocking in the wild rush off the lake and the pounding of the archers on their targets behind you an odd space opens for…
Poems from in between 