Days Between Days
Trying to find the right borderland between realism and romance and style and abstraction.
Trying to find the right borderland between realism and romance and style and abstraction.
Matter invokes form —
Quiet now! The monolith
Is about to speak!
“We practice in times of peace,
Just as we practice in times of war.
We perform for show,
And we perform in the dark.”
Why have I made
These barriers inside myself?
And as if in answer:
The coin, I think,
Spins evenly, though
One side always hides itself
Carry your name proudly, and when it gets hard, your name will carry you. // The key/flower/blade makes another appearance.
A sketch of Grimes Glen, a timeless little pocket of water and stone.
in the belly of this
little vessel, the shelter
of night, I have nothing on my shoulders
”I can see all possible futures, in every imaginable reality, and none of them interest me very much.”
Poetry is shameless. Poetry is obscure. Poetry is fine with this.
Perhaps poetry is *pretentious,* but please don’t call it that. That framing feels unfair, somehow.
“Need a steady hand on the rudder? I can do that. It’s hard to ruffle my feathers these days.”