Misplace
The universe disappears, Day too bright, Sky too blue For any other colours. The moon has misplaced its stars. The cosmos is disfigured On days like these, When the wind… Continue Reading
Dissent
There is a silence which envelops all things. It is a beast of beauty, a forest of universes, In balance, in harmony, perfect. Fragile. There are those who would disturb… Continue Reading
Exceptional
The change of name, That belief of being best, Of being superior and above, Of owing nothing and being owed Everything, the carefully Cultivated appearance, The practiced charm, The sweaty… Continue Reading
Garbled
He moves the pieces around the board Without seeing them, his muscle memory Responses to the other side accurate, his Brain active with some other thought, some Other game, some… Continue Reading
projection
the horizon is a screen life a drive-in cinema where nothing is real until it’s real the canvas of our pictures a window for others the frame a border the… Continue Reading
Lament
It’s not just the voices, Nor the dust and the heat, The flies, and the ceaseless Eruptions from what should Be heaven but is just the sky Heavy with bombs… Continue Reading
Dread
I give the finger to the fighter jet And the dark cloud it’s flying through. I’m lucky. I’m not either side of The Gaza border filled with dread At bombs… Continue Reading
carve
progress has made fools of us when we have shaped software into the hardness of learning by rote and carved our own demise into the code of the machines with… Continue Reading
Silence
Time bends around this silence, Heavy with the absence of light. The stillness is absolute, halted history, Lasting paralysis, stasis. We had hoped for better. We hope every time. What… Continue Reading
Brittle
Fragile, meaning. It shatters the morning after, When passion dissipates, when The daylight adds the sharp edges To everything, the sharp edges All things already have, The knowledge that nothing… Continue Reading