no means no. no response means no. (everyone knows maybe means nothing

STEP BACK! There’s an infection you’ll get if you come any closer. It will open your eyes through the crust

just start over not so much like anything was particularly

this being we are, delights in all things, yes but is held breathless

Fieldwizards and firetops. Wobblybirds on snowflowers. Chilled milk and chowder for the little prince. Mothercake for mumbled thanks.

there are never really any angels in god’s company, it really just pretends them

yes, darling you should come & take care of me, someone has to, & you

if ever someone is my dearest ear who hears my truth as theirs

being drawn back unlike a bowstring but down and in as water finds the lowest

we were all talking, things taking shape as they do, when someone said, be desireless, like that is at all a thing people

root it out the tiny bit left that says someone’s in charge not you. don’t let it live

life and even one good thing– anything, a course in wonders becomes? no school, thanks not for me. no lesson one so likes declaring to find itself legs. no

if i stub my fucking toe it’s their fault so say i, and who could argue? you almost