skij's 13 :: poe*try sho*rts etc.
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Monday, May 14, 2018
Sphinx, Karolina Pavlova
Thursday, October 26, 2017
October
And graces - strained through the wood
What is left - from the time before -
Like the nit - stuck
Under the hat
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
From my notes today
Title
THE SLOG
Pluses
Minuses
The diet -
Gendered
Damage Control
Epigraph
Saturday, July 01, 2017
edges cannot break
thwart
the days you pass in vain
With a brain on ice
And eye stuffed with tinningsbrook
With a mind like that
Oh, what could be
- what they could
Be instead
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Heat wave
Maybe the sky is mine
And maybe it
Is yours
Maybe all you cry out
Will die in the night
And maybe we're mortal
After all
Saturday, June 03, 2017
June
Just sunshine burns
To the back of your teeth and through -
Just daylight cracks from
Eyes wrenching eyes wrenching beyond -
Or else just these wings
In gossamer of pollen
Will straighten the clench of your jaw
- or through the mere trick of light
Now sleep in the stick of warm
Monday, April 03, 2017
No / Sunshine
Let the skin come off instead
For all the checks and focused breath
The rain falls - as it always would
Saturday, April 01, 2017
Houses divided
How can it all add up
If they don't believe in numbers
Just
Working the symbols
They Divine again and again
Between the words they take on
Or
Reducing the fractions
To the nil
And what comes beyond
Friday, March 10, 2017
In Passing
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Dreams in the Heat
Not wash away
The faces of all dusty day
Maybe to pry the
Slits from the Meat
Maybe to sleep through the night
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
No grips / anymore
Springtime 3
Friday, March 03, 2017
Springtime 2
then
It all comes apart
We welcome the nerves to
come
Scratching out days
in
The dust and the
shade
When sleep only comes
after noon
Friday, February 24, 2017
Springtime
only faster
just like slipping
only quicker
the ice at your knees
brace the sand at your neck
and noone can see
down the well
Saturday, February 04, 2017
Handles
Nothing can hold
Stars moon sun rain
It only seems like that
Because you
Haven't seen this before
Friday, February 03, 2017
February
when you do not climb
the fish are silent
wherever you swim
you can't find the handle
on the balls in play
when the noise multiplies
out of the field
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Ground, Away
Stacking
Monday, January 30, 2017
JAN
somehow -
all of it
the streets and the birds and the sleet
Maybe the days
will keep draining themselves away
Maybe we won't notice when
It comes apart
Monday, January 23, 2017
Choices
Friday, January 13, 2017
One Day Only
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Inauguration Day
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
January
No - last minute heroics
No - sunset when the work day is done
These are the leaves
That would meet you regardless
The decay of what only was won
Friday, December 30, 2016
Plaster
It doesn't hurt the first day
Only the second and third
It's raw without the rubbing
And with the rubbing, worse
Maybe I'll find space inside
To sleep away the scabs
Or maybe I'll dream
And heal the skein
With my illusions intact