Wednesday, October 12, 2016

"The destruction of love can be brought about most swiftly when one love constantly demands of the other, 'Do you love me? Do you really love me?' while the other, at first, replying, 'Yes, of course I do' and being met with 'Are you sure?' has no place to go but away."

- Janet Frame, The Caparthians

Monday, October 10, 2016

starling

the skies cracking open
horizons appearing
the clearing of oceans
the searing of sun

gas station

we've slipped
in\to 
that day-to-day habit
the Dance of the Mundane
- it's okay, I think

we flow
in and out, sometimes
faces smushed together, 
sometimes
heads towards 
opposite ends
- it's okay

because the universe
(and all within it) 
is spherical, because
everything
must always
return
home
our fingertips will eventually
weave themselves
back into each other
and we'll remember all the lives
that have flushed themselves through us