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Jake Espinoza Apr 2013
the Wolf and his night creatures are invulnerable sages
    Make sure you're aware.            padding silently, urgently
        Vigilance, empress.                     calmly
            Vigilance.                              over knotted roots
                                                                suffering tangled nature
Jake Espinoza Apr 2013
It's easy to claim courage or indifference in face of change
There was a time when that might've been true
    being younger & more resilient
    or just naïve enough
But these days, your voice is dented and disused
    a bold whisper through fog
    & dampened dust
the words flutter up weak
a common flock stirring skies

unnoticed

It's time to start counting
birds
again
Or good poems, for that matter
Jake Espinoza Apr 2013
Even now
doubt tugs at the bottom
of my stomach
courage whispers in my head
my lungs burn
my blood rushes
and I am uncertain
as ever
Who cares about good titles anyway
Jake Espinoza Mar 2013
I'd rather drown in poetry
than fly lackluster arid skies
I did not know this before today
Jake Espinoza Mar 2013
There was a song
    the singer
    presumably the author, we can guess
    urged me to open all the boxes
    he did this several times.
I like the sound of that.
    Opening boxes could be satisfying.
    They can contain all manner of affairs after all
    My mind is all cardboard and razors
    and forgotten tape
        ****

            where did I put the tape
I had it just a second ago
Jake Espinoza Mar 2013
SO WHAT.
Deal with it. It won't stop
probably so deal with it or
haha nevermind silly, just
move on to something else.
Who gives a **** about headphones
advertisements in the middle of
hypnotizing music from her stores?
The larder is – behind that door – you
can't enter no matter how hard you
try, that is music there. There's nothing
physical, no floors no walls no just music and you can open the door.
What you hear won't make sense and it will blot out all other
senses but there she is striding past me and walks
inside.

because that's where she belongs. This is not my comprehension. In she went,
and I will never see her again but hear her as she has infiltrated the
realm of organized sound to contribute to the beautiful lustful chaos. She
has only just begun, I realize. There is no end, though there was a beginning;
she has fractured infinity casually as sipping water from tea cups in faux-innocent
sunlight filtered through a hangover on something you're pretty sure was called a
veranda but that's more a polite curiosity than a serious one so you content yourself to take in
this retrospectively invented image of her in Ray Bans and anything but pants with her scars
embossed and tattoos in a rare moment of silence preceding the moment of sound where she asks  
why you're looking at her like that, and you hadn't realized you'd done it again, shifted to the
future you reflecting on the present moment to grasp the intangible, to outline the undefined to
alter the fixed and whatever other paradoxes you happen to be causing at the time because you've
accidentally, temporarily transcended again, so you're really just along for the ride with your
pretty little thoughts of her and this veranda or whatever while she's smoking a cigarette you
offered her so enjoy it while it lasts. Whatever you do, enjoy it while it lasts, and go easy on
yourself, you're just a kid after all, remember. Remember. and don't forget
Skip the first half of the first block of words.
Or don't.
Jake Espinoza Mar 2013
such quiet eternities bursting back & forth
over new-wave angels exuding neon
sermons on sermons intermingling
the saturation varies in violent bursts this time
through – everything swallows everything else here
there goes my hat. There are too many layers
indistinguishable. I see only one detail or the
whole confusing mess and it is
                                                       so
                                                           comfortable
             (drawing of a planet!)            here
                                                       ­            in
                                                              ­         gray.
It looks like Saturn.
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