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
Tag Archives: spring
before the dew
the nights are getting warmer
and that kiss of 2am dew
will feel less sloppy less frenetic
less like that fumbling teenage lip lock
in the church basement
the river is calm for now
yet the ducks still explore the wharf
dry as it is, expecting to swim
there are no girls with auburn hair
here to sing me into the water
and into the imagining
that I am not a duck
searching midnight basements
for the first hint of dew
untitled series 3 (Spring 2022)
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and the setting sun melts into deep pastels
somewhere in Portland
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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