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even years later (a pantoum)
it isn’t just for your own mourning it’s worry for the living lost in grief it’s an act you fear they’re just performing through the occluding looking glass that is belief it’s worry for th...
in the end
in the end we will all mostly be strung up on thick crosses hewn from the wildest of our dreams “perfect or nothing” as an ethos is the worst of all possible worlds all the effort with n...
clarity
“things haven’t made sense in a long time” he said “that’s okay” she replied “things never made sense” “that’s just a veil time lifted from before your eyes” “now you know that things don...
bearing witness
when they say “bear witness” they really mean that you do bear it you are burdened with knowledge weighed down by understanding your shoulders sag under the ...
forward
Allow the unintentional to look unintentional. Allow the intentional to look intentional. Abandon your pretense in both directions. Abandon your ego section by section. Let yourself admit h...
content
we live in this culture that profits off never letting us feel contentment, that forces us to always striving but also almost never helps us feel better aspiration has its uses I’ve been ...
the process
keeping one foot in the practical world and one foot in the world of theory is the only way to be good at either and it’s also one of the hardest things to maintain long-term its one thing to...
parallels
the secret to parking a car in a tight spot is not caring is in trusting your instincts more than you care if you screw up the confidence of nonchalance when nothing matters it’s a...
gas
something to be said for that solemn ritual gassing up the car at the end of your long working day eleven, midnight one-thirty or two long after everyone who isn’t either desperate o...
you 3
the defenses you build up against all of your perceived threats are the only thing fueling them at all the only thing making them real let go unclench even if you need to build a whole new...
you 2
in failure there is reincarnation of a kind a dream has died but here you are alive and with the chance to rebuild yourself anew outlast your dreams watch them turn to dust and take up ...
you
definitions categories and names they’re part of you but aren’t you they may have made you who you are but they are not who you are who you are is so much more holy and weir...
itself afraid
a lack of fear just proves you’re some damned fool or that you are dead inside we waltz with our fears in each choice, in every second that we’re alive the key to overcoming t...
you can
you can reach a point where you have had so many crises you don’t know how to live without inhabiting a crisis you start manufacturing them just so you feel normal again don’t let life d...
down for the count
Counting on something big and amazing happening soon to balance this all out is almost as self-destructive as assuming the bad times will ceaselessly roll. All we can do is take...
i am bicpentameter
Am I the only one bothered that anagram isn’t an anagram? Am I the only one bothered that palindrome isn’t a palindrome? Is anyone else bothered that onamonapia isn’t an onamonapia? Tha...
the abyss, as in a mirror dimly
liberation from oppression is of vital import but the moment we go past that and oppress others we are even worse than those who hurt us until our hurt stared back this can never be abou...
known unknowns
everywhere everyone everyone everywhere has a name had a name was called something particular by very many someones if not anymore at least once just because those names did not surv...
axiomagic
you can, of course squeeze at a stone until there’s blood the blood won’t be from the stone, the blood will be your own that’s all but squeeze and blood and stone they’ll all be presently ...
phantom limb syndrome
that tingling feeling as if your soul has fallen fast asleep that prickle at the back of your everything you leaned on your consciousness for too long something has been pinched it has slu...
the turning away
dream it build it knock it down don’t look now here it comes again mandala mandala mandal manda mand man ma m dream it build it ...
consolation prize
if it’s any consolation you make ennui look good beauty isn’t everything a fact well understood but if this life is suffering there is something to be said for making it look so good
causalties of war
we managed to make the release of a new Star Wars movie into a collective cultural colonoscopy an uncomfortable begrudging obligation something nobody wants to actually do but you’re afraid ...
the way we weren't
we aspirated on our aspirations we consumed and consumed until we coughed up blood from consumption wallowed so far in the depths of fantasy the coma was inevitable we were Americans until...
mirror in the sky
the moon doesn’t know you the moon doesn’t know you look up to it for a light out there in the darkness the moon doesn’t know itself does not think about how it reflects the sun any more ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
