Ryan Dement

Ryan Dement Sep 2020

Nickels.

All your heavy, gray
groaning
accumulates
like nickels.

What am I supposed to do
with all these nickels?

Ryan Dement Sep 2020

Overgrown.

Nettles on your legs,
sawgrass in you speaks,
can't you see
for all your weeding,
your garden overgrows?

Ryan Dement Aug 2020

Statues.

Building
marble men
to admire
or hate.

We should
tear them all
down,
and climb up
ourselves.

Ryan Dement Aug 2020

Genealogy.

There is
a crooked path
of wine bottles
from me
back to Adam.

Ryan Dement Aug 2020

Steps.

Wooden,
stone,
or concrete,
now when I
see steps,
I want to
sit on them
with you.

Ryan Dement Aug 2020

Adaptation.

Cover your nose.
There are new
bad things
that want to be
inside you.

Cover your mouth
and learn to
smile
with your eyes.

Ryan Dement Aug 2020

We love when children
say words wrong,
and hate
when we do
the same.