Jacob Vigil: Poems

Jan 2015 · 434

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I wanted her to love me amid rocks
and boulders, within dark forests,
upon limitless seas.

but when she arrived, I was not there.

Jan 2015 · 387

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shadows dancing atop volcanic
stones and red-painted mesas

this lad has known cataclysms
both corporeal and spiritual

Jan 2015 · 575

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black stones litter a desert plain.
the detritus of nameless eons, strewn
by a forgotten god across the sun-scarred flatland.

rest

Jan 2015 · 389

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salt winds scour the craggy deadlands, unrelenting.

no one, not ghost nor scribe, will recount the stories hidden therein.

Jan 2015 · 350

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the whole thing was a quake, the aftershocks of an unfathomable loneliness.

the tremors ceased, and now we contemplate what we have done.

Jan 2015 · 259

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I'm here.

sometimes that's all you want to say.

sometimes that's all you want someone else to say.