dazmb: Poems

Thriller

dazmb May 2015

Thriller

these rustling leaves come alive
binding earth to words, running wild in woods
the ghosts of trees in books

#trees #books #reading #ghosts

Uncertain

dazmb May 2015

Uncertain

in bed, aware
that nothing outside
this moment
is real

next to me, you lie
with your hand on my chest

#truth #marriage #uncertain

Up for it

dazmb May 2015

Up for it

a sucker punch
and a tooth
casually discarded

#fight #tooth

Voyeur

dazmb May 2015

******

wolf, sworn silent
indifferent, but listening
through a slant in the shadow
where language is nothing
but an attention to scent

#poetry #wolf #language

Wake

dazmb May 2015

Wake

childhood grief
the sun lingers on
and the house smells
of someone walking home
I reach for my mother’s arms
in sorrow and safekeeping

#mother #grief #memory #childhood

White poem

dazmb May 2015

White poem

A white poem
A pure poem
A poem that reaches the dirt
underneath your fingernails.

#poetry #white #dirt #fingernails

Wolfpack

dazmb May 2015

Wolfpack

out in the tundra
there is never
the gentle end
you long for
just eye teeth
that pursue you
for a glint of sky
deep in the bone

#death #wolf #hunt

Writer's block

dazmb May 2015

Writer's block

snow is falling
silently waiting
for the scrunch of a story
then watching indifferently
as a fox disappears
down an alley

#poetry #writersblock #fox #snow

Yew Tree

dazmb May 2015

Yew Tree

we bury the dead
as bone deep ghosts to ourselves
relying instead
on the earth
to return us uprooted
as something pagan and pure

#death #trees #rebirth

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