(2015)
of course it is not about you. you have to know this, like baby birds know worms come with mother’s return,
why is nothing i can do now. where it went. what that echo means, if anything
Fieldwizards and firetops. Wobblybirds on snowflowers. Chilled milk and chowder for the little prince. Mothercake for mumbled thanks.
being drawn back unlike a bowstring but down and in as water finds the lowest
a few hundred million dying days later he emerges into crazy
we were all talking, things taking shape as they do, when someone said, be desireless, like that is at all a thing people
reflecting on the moment before, would be useful only were it not already perfect.
first fruits hardly a handful, the garden
unspeakable dearth of nutrient the cause of the complaint, lack of the sweet titmilk of human connection,
love does not beat on doors, beg at tables. it is always
does a king come ready– made, or doesn’t he emerge from a prince once a frog, and aren’t you
i love you for the doubt you show me still possible in this body where you show me
was all stupid. you weren’t that entertaining. i find it all only sad now, that
a breeze. already know what’s what. shut up. kiss her. shut up...
you are guilty of failing to love and understand me, like a dog is guilty of failing to speak or use