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April 9, 2015

Optimist

I’ve never been an optimist but I was hopeful once. Now I sit and watch the world, gather clues and tuck them in my pockets so later, when I need to I can pull them out, examine them and make the way make sense.

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January 7, 2015

At the End

They will pick apart your life with tiny sharpened forks and throw away the ugly pieces…

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January 3, 2015

On Nico Stai and Falling Stars

I sent you pictures of the moon and we were corduroy and woodsmoke, constellations hanging over threatening to crash and burn us up…

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December 10, 2014

Like Icarus

…you can see them in the distance insects circling with rough and tattered wings careening off each other stupid, blind and insignificant fighting for the chance to fall…

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November 10, 2014

On Friendship and Cohabitation

“I’m not good at living with someone,” she said looking down at the floor. “I know,” I said. “I’m not either. But.” And I went home and waited for the song of tires on gravel folded myself into him, a tiny slip of paper in his palm.

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April Fox

Tag: nc poetry

Optimist

At the End

On Nico Stai and Falling Stars

Like Icarus

On Friendship and Cohabitation