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pililarart
has quoted
last year
Regarding loss, I’m afraid
to keep it in the story,
pililarart
has quoted
last year
Upon landing, the ground
embraced me sadly, with the gentleness
of someone delivering tragic news to a child.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
Sometimes God comes to earth disguised as rust,
chewing away a chain link fence or mariner’s knife.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
Listen to me, faithful silence: somehow
we’ve become strangers.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
afterwards the others dream
of rain their pupils boil they light black candles
and pray the only prayer they know oh lord
spare this body set fire to another
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
may God beat
us awake scourge our brains to life may we measure every victory
by the momentary absence of pain there is no solace in history this is a gift
we are given at birth a pocket we fold into at death goodbye now you mountain
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
I’m becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it’s a myth
that love lives in the heart it lives in the throat we push it out
when we speak when we gasp we take a little for ourselves
in books love can be war-ending a soldier drops his sword
to lie forking oysters into his enemy’s mouth in life we hold love up to the light
to marvel at its impotence
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
I am not a slow learner I am a quick forgetter
such erasing makes one voracious if you teach me something
beautiful I will name it quickly before it floats away
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
Because I am here
each of these things has a name.
CrushedUnderAStackOfBooks
has quoted
last year
sometimes I feel beautiful and near dying
like a feather on an arrow shot through a neck other times
I feel tasked only with my own soreness like a scab on the roof
of a mouth
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