let your longing be just yours for a day keep the ache close lay it low sit slow wait— for the unbearable to settle Longing can be intoxicating—sweet…
Read Morein another world i’d have married you he said and it’s hard not to say i love you at the end of every call because i do in the quiet…
Read Morei know you so well though you don’t know that i do seen the things you tried (to hide) been the wings you needed (to decide) and now i’m leaving…
Read Morelove is like a spider it makes you jump with a certain kind of exhilaration (an odd terror even) that takes a while to settle a fascinating creature all legs…
Read Moresweet lung of fire each breath an electric crackle lit by oxygen each laugh a leopard’s rasping and there you sit split in two and nestled so close to my…
Read Morea day later they’re still there! the tracks that show how and when we jumped off a wooden bridge-into-a-dry riverbed yours so confident mine a mess of feet and fingers…
Read Morei want to be summery myself and do winters with you This little one (the poem, not the greater striped swallow) has been hanging around for a while.…
Read Morei am the digging the rootstock and the rotting i am the burrowing and the dank dark to be furrowed i am the big lungs the bright eyes i am…
Read Morecome, let’s go! beckoned a beach bleached like bone a beach as wide as a whale as long as a longing so like the sanderling feet tip-tap-tapping beneath lovely, round,…
Read Morei long for a planet cared for tended to and when i do my body’s work— clear blood rivers stoke bright lungs— i do it also for you …
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