1.
Ol’ rubber sole
soaked and ratted thru
a tired old sponge
2.
sparrows hop at supper
’round the shop floor
six picky janitors
Tag Archives: humid
untitled series 3 (Spring 2022), number 12
this Ohio Valley air makes lungs sticky
the way meat rots in the heat
one must be deliberate now, not think
each cough expels some important chunk but
an unnecessary left over bit not included
in the illustrated instructions
untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)
3.
and the setting sun melts into deep pastels
somewhere in Portland
4.
we’re remembering the boil different reading seasonal temperatures like tea leaves looking for that right crisp beer, maybe, to tell us how we feel a proper cocktail to illustrate the mood
dreaming of a year that may have never been a season that never shifted we were just too young and too short to notice the sky that never falls in quite the way we think it orta