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i'll be a leaf,
my color bleached, my edges brittle -
a little carbon and decomposition
among the madding mulch.
i'll feed whole forests.
Literature
Alzheimers
i hear my grandfather breaking shore on D-Day,
the muffled black and white German blaring
on the History Channel. the memories etched
in his face fading as the rabid fear, break-neck
hug, anything, to hold on.
and his fear seeps into my clothes, my spine,
lingers there for days.
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truth in the lens
Your 35mm camera
is like a kid’s scrawl on a cement wall: we were here.
Passion unabridged,
documentation for the sake of documentation
as we lose track of what we were supposed to be doing
and just exist.
You’re as raw as a light scratch at three in the morning,
as lost as a Polaroid in that pocket in your suitcase
that you always forget is there.
(You’re not really lost at all.)
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lunacy.
what the moon teaches us is
no one exists as a constant.
some days you will orbit elsewhere.
the angles of light that
make up the shadows of you
will keep moving.
it is the same with the ocean
and how it does not meet
the shore the same each time:
some days it will come crashing,
eroding: or it comes back to kiss
its edges over and over
there are some days i am more
of a tsunami. there will be days
you will be eclipsed.
and i don't mind this. the moon is
up in the sky but the ocean still feels
the weight of its pull, always.
i want to drown in the
push and pull of your gravity
in all the ways that's possible.
i could get used to the
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for someone with (thankfully) no suicidal tendencies, i sure do chase that imagery a lot.
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Chase it? In general, you take imagery, hunt it down, catch it, tie it up, make it your slave and flog it until it calls you "Mistress". You OWN imagery.
(okay, that's the oddest compliment/review I've ever left... anywhere... I hope it comes across as a compliment, anyway)
(okay, that's the oddest compliment/review I've ever left... anywhere... I hope it comes across as a compliment, anyway)