To knit, note by molecular note, one letter at a time, some continuity against the chill of constant fracture. An act of resistance, to mend the minor acts of a given day to the chorus of befores and yet-may-comes.
small wish
a stitch in this time
Month: December 2024
night note
at an uncertain time
You want to believe the coming dawn though eyes in dark see death at every turn and haunting and the place is new and the length of its night no longer known so go on, trying to remember what it might do when it comes to stain the sky whole and beyond anything you know, especially now.
containment
of excess
O vine, sparrow, minnow, snail:
it warms the slow blood
of this brooding being
to long to take such forms
instead of the too much
of me in this one.
.
substance
of things unseen
Hello, strange angel.
What fire, what incessant iridescence
when I meant to keep cool
pretending to know you.
shelled
creatures in wartime
After the war moved in, some went numb and never returned. Some emitted the atmosphere of carnival, others of tombs. Either way, what rattled was the shells of battle shocks, tiring over time while inside them the minds and lives of us where it rained fire and none could remove their boots, an endless waiting while covered in successive barrels of earth but not relief. We saw things and heard them, carrying on.