110: sideways

poetry is afteall talking sideways to the ears that could otherwise not hear a word they have to say sending signals like smoke to the visions long blurred by convention wisdom says listen so poets speak in tongues and smoke signals greatly hoping the message is felt...

109: better

what is better anyway because really are we not all just in motion set before us before we began we keep on as if because that is what we have yet the bees butterflies even pesty senseless yellowjackets work their short term existences to build for the next to...

108: was it after THE WAR

that we lost our sense of building so that the next generation would go on to have and to hold or perhaps it began before trickled in a small crack we did not see until all too unmistakably there was no finger strong enough to plug the dike that flooded society and...

107: no next

worked so long under the guise of busy and fruitful and productive and performative working toward as if evolution were the eventuality when in fact eventuality brought the smile to their faces their appeasement secure only I go on to figure out who I am in this world...

106: would you find me

Were I to feel the need to run away to where life felt like living again something to lean toward not just exist in hoping something something would evolve hope grows weary heavy to hold when continued under just enough read the...