Archive for the ‘ Water ’ Category

Lakebed

She lies down in grass unfolded like old origami crane creased, incomplete. “Grandma get up from the grass” Her fingers arch, stiffen, but can’t lift the hand, spider legs struggling to unbend, three brothers, severed or missing. Fingers always seeking tips curve out from the palm as if endlessly plucking an invisible blossom. Elbows hook [ READ MORE ]

States of Wear

His mind can’t speak to him wicker cage body broken in to, like a mineshaft collapsed– bird-free. The man is made of sticks, girl, blow, blow, blow smoke him holey-less. Eventually, recede into a dune of ground glass, a beach you’d drink to the bottom, if you were thirsty enough to drown yourself[ READ MORE ]

Paintings, Stacked

I don’t say anything when I speak to myself. Just stand still in between dreams–holding photos by the edges of fingers, notebook pages–crawled over by ink insects, leaving wing-prints. In dim, before spring, light lapping trees twirl up from the ground revealing themselves to be vines. Fingers reach out at a heaving sky but clouds [ READ MORE ]

The Horizon and The Sun Behind It

“Ask what the disparate elements have in common: Do they stand for one another, or for the same thing?” -Stephen Burt The two halves of a wishbone are talking to each other again after moments of separation, When we were a bone did you and I know one another? I don’t seem to remember having [ READ MORE ]

Flood

original poem here Wondering what this is? Information here[ READ MORE ]

Town of Babel

In the town of Babel we spoke in trees and in the gleam of winter sunlight crossing itself over coats of ice, the sound of cold water running itself into icicles. There is no garden to leave, only a garden to be in. No language to speak, only something to speak of. In the town [ READ MORE ]

Flood

The flood is the color of your lips, comes flowing at me swollen with a kiss. “It is not me, just the ocean in five bottles Are these my hands that hold them or the ghost of an ocean upright?&#[ READ MORE ]

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