Tag: melancholia

  • Wot up?

    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash

    I’m going to be posting less often over the summer. I think so, anyway.

    Why?

    I have a couple of irons in the fire, among other reasons:

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  • underneath

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    the peopling ages raw
    meat hook hanging
    — don't pretend to kiss me,
    this savage morning hurts

    let me dance the razor's edge
    the deaf talk my broken digits
    the blind point my way home

    underneath, i weary stone

  • daybreak sends

    green trees near body of water
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    to quell all dreaming
    long black snake riding
    writhing at land's end

    days i tire of thinking —
    must be something more
    just around the bend

    pull over waysides
    drinking travel mug brew
    to stare at what daybreak
    sends

  • dreams only

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    i suppose that sometimes
    a dream is only a dream
    but these always lean
    towards rude awakenings

  • holiday

    Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash
    overdone & unmoored
    sent adrift & becalmed
    uncertain of standing
    or taken sitting down
    wondering what was
    done to deserve these
    days

    you're due for holiday
    they say, but where do you go
    when even going away
    makes you feel like this
    on these days