9/7/2022 5:31 PM
I'm here now. it's beautiful. The air is delicious.
But
Light leaves
I'm lost.
I'm there. Home is not here yet.
Something just bit me. A spider? Likely a
noiseless patient one. I'm ok, and then
something bit me.
I remember more life than when I was living it.
The wind drifts with busy summer evenings
when the neighbors were grilling and our windows
are open. I smell our conversation.
There are clouds above now. Time isn't golden,
just
smoky.
9/24/2022 10:31 PM
How can you fit so many memories into one being?
I have so many memories and I'm still so young
No wonder we forget
New Soul, by Yael Naim
Today I went tailgating and met her family. I miss mine.
Thats the thing though: I'm going to visit at Thanksgiving, but it won't be the same. I've lived that time and I can't go back.
That's the nature of nostalgia.
Family and I are not on the same thread of fate.
Goodnight.
1/10/2023 4:13 PM
Waiting at the pharmacy
Five prescriptions, five too many
At checkout: "What are you singing?"
"Paradise"
Could heaven on earth be words?
They are perhaps the closest
to true creation
We have.
There was a word at the beginning they say
I wonder, who spoke it?
1/11/ 2023 10:58 AM
Architecture, soaring, spiraling, swirling
Colorful or not
The room seems taken up by the fish tank
Blatantly serene.
Today a thin grey blankets the city
So that the tallest spires
Have an empty
Space in between
planets must be lonely.
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A Rent In Reality: Poems and Short Stories
PoetryA few of my poems and short stories, of many different kinds. Some are in meter, some free verse, some rhyme, some do not. I find words to be magical things. They bring us places that we cannot go, and allow us to experience more in an hour than we...
