Tag: writing

  • In that small moment

    We almost touched

    Side by side on the sofa

    That sank towards the middle

    And the electricity

    Of the almost touching

    Had nowhere to earth

    blew the tv

    And we jumped back away from each other

    Laughing
  • Succulent


    I feel the constant vibrations of your world around me,
    all day, sharp juddering against my smooth flesh,
    In this pot,
    I am adrift.
    Still, I feel the connections of my kin,
    grown, growing,
    dying and dead,
    seed and shoot,
    far and near.
    Even though round me is barren,
    I have this small fertile pool,
    I can put forth memories of my future,
    even that might not be,
    if there is not enough space for them here,
    I take this as I take a stone
    in the earth,
    where my roots feel out,
    One way,
    the other,
    no matter.

    I express myself through the air,
    parting molecules with my firm, juicy, chaotically uniform shapes,
    I jut out in pairs from my core,
    I express ever outward,
    I need for nothing but emergence,
    I exist only to jam song form through the air,
    as my secret roots bind me.
  • Crow

    My kind have been here sometime
    since before you created these tall tall places to stand
    And dug new veins into earth
    Before the world got loud with your ruckus

    We stand on these new tall places
    Taller than any trees we had seen before
    And watch you

    These new places are unmoving
    They don t talk to us like the trees do
    They don t shiver at our touch
    There is only cold hardness when our claws touch

    The scraps you throw us are welcome change
    from the carrion we usually feed on
    We appreciate the closeness and attention you show us
    But you look askance or laugh when we try to talk to you
    I hop close to look at you
    one eye at a time
    We have much to tell you
    Words
    Tellings from the time before
    And the time after

    We have words for you
    If only you would remember
    how to listen.