two pupils,
in and out
Category: Embodiment
Feelings
first the twist of leaves,
tight as an icicle
Vigilant
The souls I wouldn’t try to fix,
the compliments I didn’t give,
and all the hearts who never asked
for mine to be so earnest—
Wind Sang
When the hawk lifted above the goats
grazing on the mountain,
into the mist-filtered,
sun-kissed sky,
Honor
You draw your knee closer to you in the sand,
tilt it, push it back
as the tide rushes out.
Flame Wheel
Grief drops, panic rises,
and I’ve got my deflection grin on.
How many topics would you
like these words to center?
sometimes when lydia wants to answer a question, she
When I was three, I wanted the colorful, fun-shaped
cereal with the kids’ commercial, but my mom said,
you won’t like that, and I said, I will, so she said, fine,
and she got it, but I didn’t like it.
Stimulate
I wonder at times if the ripples understand
you and I better than we
understand each other,
Acknowledgements
I
seem to have talked a lot,
so my
mouth is very dry,
Some Flesh
“Sorry, I was
talking to myself,” I say
to the imaginary
person who caught me
talking to an imaginary
person,
Alphabet Ravine 