Decemeber 20
the street ended in a cloud as did the day a damp forest lot made softer by mist some of it rain and some of it a gift a slip of the ephemeral given up by the earth
Month: December 2023
December 14
Cuetlaxochitl when not blighted or root-bound you are a lanky thing almost unrecognizable when green we know you only seasonally by your fiery bracts as a crimson attendant to the shortest days of winter which is another way to say the longest nights— here as always words are problematic we hear what is said but not what is omitted and accept cheery propagation without a second thought
December 13
rabbit at the yard edge still as stone fading into dusk awaiting something or outwaiting it— I wasn’t prepared for the silence here awaking suddenly to the crack of wood under duress holding my breath listening as the whole forest surged around me— there is no such thing as empty space I know this by how night swallows this house the knock-kneed pines and the flooded fields beyond them the very earth falling away the […]
December 11
a day under glass how to explain the air was thick but nothing happened the sun never even rose late geese flew low in an avian shorthand in a lusterless sky
December 10
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini accompanied by the roar of two plastic dinosaurs from the back seat of the car the rain compounds the dark and traffic inches along I sent the package to the wrong house, the old house this is an uncertain endeavor what is mine, what was mine you are unaware in your carseat watching the world melt into discrete globes of red and white and green clinging to the windows […]
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