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The smoky structure of forgotten dreams,
buried in the breath of lost denial
Stealing from sleep what life rebukes
—disguising what the coming dawn reviles

(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)
Value yourself because in this world full of cheap and worthlessness,   only you can see your self worth
Kung ako'y mawawala
Iiyak ka kaya?
Kung ako'y mawawala
Ako ba'y iyong kalilimutan
Ibubulong nalang sa hangin
Paagusin sa dagat ng mga bituin
Kung bigla mang sumagi saiyong isipan
Ang aking pangalan
Salamat aking Kaibigan
I’m not broken
Just dinted

I’m not burning
Just scorched

I’m not shattered
Just splintered

I’m not dying
Just hurt
I breathe in your fragrance
I blow out a field of freesias and forget me nots
I catch your smile with my hand
and release swallows and sunsets
I turn your eyes into stars
the night your sweetest silence
Friends come and go at whim
but blood flows freely beneath the skin
Pins upon my pillow
puncturing my brain
Sprinkling out my dreams
like sleeping in the rain
Flowing out my nightmares
Rivers run in my bed
Swimming in my dreaming
Plugging holes in my head
My mattress is floating
My soul is sinking slow
Down the river drowning
and in my dreams, I row…row… row…
Today I forgot
the very thing I lost
I forgot I lost it
I forgot what it was

Tomorrow I found
in my memory tossed
what was not there
where all along
it never was
What M.C.Escher is to Art
poetry can be
https://moa.byu.edu/m-c-eschers-relativity/
 Nov 2021 Blueberry Ice
collin
dom
 Nov 2021 Blueberry Ice
collin
dom
your maple syrup words
the deepest green in your eyes
the points of your antlers in my thighs
the predator becoming the one who dies.
Years pile up
like leaves

another winter
of
slumbering trees

The oranges
and
the rusts

oil me please
so that I
not yield
to dust

I sympathize
with the
trees and the wildlife,
left to survive
a Winter's
frost

they are the
strong,
the invincible
and on us,
that should never
be lost

I can only admire
God's strength
within them,
as I stand with
mouth agape

Nothing on this earth
has ever wowed me
more than ....

God's work
to date



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