scattered & floating;
dusting air, silt in wind.
impossible to catch.
baseball mitt & fingertips;
grains & phantoms
slip, slip through.
fragmented epiphanies;
conclusions dance away
& thread twists into knots.
pen & paper & letters & ink,
words somehow at a loss;
unfailing & forever present,
everything falls sometime.
canvas smiles & spark eyes;
young or naive or both? once.
flip pages & scribble notes;
answers shan't wait.
this is serious! teeth &
eyes & cheeks smiling;
fade & shatter & gone,
float, float, float, pop!
entrap flames & fingers fly;
campfire singing, offkey.
remember? — no, forgotten
& replaced; whistling ash
& float away & gone for good.
shaken & drifting;
jars empty, lights dim.
you've slipped away yet.
- a. ; 8.08.21
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shoebox | a poetry collection
Poetry" 𝑖'𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝒃𝒆𝒅. . . " - a collection of poems written by yours truly - " . . . 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 . "
