188: traveling to or from

I heard it before I pulled away not with ears exactly with a place unidentifiable where life has been so many times over I just know taking off makes all the difference an insistent grace I’m incapable of hearing calls until that certain age ah...

187: travel to michigan

I’m going again after just six weeks regular like a regular I can remember when I left determined to leave the broken pieces there without me as if I could find what went missing in this new place there came to linger parts that I could not puzzle out yet could...

185: moved by this strange life

six years old for a moment eyes peeled back by the moon shine smiling through my window that strawberry blossom hung by a string dangling at the end of God’s fingertips teasing tickling my eyelids i’m keeping my feet from the ground for one more minute...

184: when you just have things to say

say them to the moon the sun will do as well in a pinch if it’s not the weight of summer deep southern august when he is not respecting personal space say them to the blooms fading the buds curling the tops of the garlic scapes nodding in the breeze speak aloud...

183: ah the moon

did you see it?!4:09am full-skirted billowingchiffon-hazetucked into the arms of the elm in the cemeterydipping backa choreographed tangoas sun approachestapping its shoulder asking for this dance