586: a long forgotten body

a stagnant river beyond the back of beyond a lake not fished in a long while idle a hand resting across a chest a bent-angled wing cast along a still breast atop the grey wet pavement this river this lake this hand this wing have flown have risen have reached have...

585: the ideal medium

it’s been encouraged that to work oneself out one must employ the ear of an impersonal listener I myself find it magnificently uplifting to engage conversation with one close friend this then the ideal medium in which to straighten out my...

584: enough to endure

I love you I said it upon waking not a preaching from the self-help gurus but written on my mind’s eye like lipstick across a bathroom mirror a simple question ensued- irrespective of how we’re ‘meant’ to feel and certainly unshackled from what...

583: a calm of enthusiasm

in the most favorable case an uncertain life it becomes too fraught to permit a shared happiness sometimes it is enough to simply agree to be together no matter how far apart this can grow into a necessary fondness not through living out duties of devotion but having...

582: behind this shield

obvious truths are tremendously fragile think of the yester-years we’ve exited the trivialities and quaint recalls they presumed deeply true today we face dramatically disturbing adjustments we think these upheavals for surely they are that but now that...