Tag: rarepoethree
A telegram: smoke
The neighbouring volcano is awakening. At last, says Old Pinatubo to its young mentee, but you do not do it like me; like I did, had done. intense, all-consuming unlike you, a trap: covering house by house with smog like how you would boil a frog slowly filling in each nostrilwith every piece of your…
Asking chaos
In the midst of the chaos, that isplain: black and white and black and whiteSomething asked me of a question I’ve been wondering myself:What is it that causes the waves to glistenin the early hours of the oceanlike glitters that do not stick? How can some days feel like it’s made of honey?And where can…
Interlude: two poems and a thought
I. Sometimes I feel it / and yet it escapes me / that golden burst of light that lightness of living / for drowning but my own gravity / keeps me from the currents I long for II. The devil left the details long ago to look for warmer pastures An island far east where…
fish out of water
she feels her heart collapsing as if every vein is giving upslowly constricting, tightening the spaces around the only musclethat remains feelingthe rest of her body is numb, cold by the wind, burned over by the sunthe sun’s light through the moon’s filters shine on her scales gentlyas if there can be any help to…
Lucid
‘Lucid’ is part of expired sentiments, a short poetry collection available here for download.
“Surrender.”
Visibility
expired sentiments
Here’s a snippet of my recently published work, ‘expired sentiments’! Time works weirdly in that now is the right moment for me to turn to old written experiences. Just enough distance to say I don’t resonate with them anymore but that doesn’t mean they ought to be completely forgotten. So, here they are, hoping their…
Advance care
Our youngest, my favorite:her progress My computer screen showedthe only thing I didn’t know for lunch Who, what whereConcern for every detail of our lives the deepest needs of our heartspromised to us, watching over today
The Holy Grail
We serve a god who loves more our work to responsibly take care of the world that god created the god expects us to serve weak, hungry, naked, thirsty, broken remain alert to respond we must forget this because there may come a time when our ability to “do for god” is torn from us…