Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
 
matt r Feb 20
two maybe three times a day the
wave
crashes on the surfer but he's
ready
he's seen the tide he's breathed
it
he's drank it and got it all bubbled
up
in his stomach like me with two
feet
on dry land but at least he's in
halfpipe
dreamland dancing the earthtime
groove
at least he knows what he's in
for
i'll just slalom down this beach
in
my petty thematic way and i'll
kick
over the sandcastles in protest
of
this prima nocta glassdust.
matt r Feb 20
i've seen hailstorms collapse
bigger pylons than i.
we stood on the guppy lip
of the ravines
they carved & you threw a stone.

it fell without complaint
and so i followed.
matt r Feb 19
recall the petrichor of
the porcelain rain, breathe
& let it ring down your
spine. one day you will

be more okay than you're
ever going to be. sleep
then, between the china,
and dream of bluebells.
let me tell you! it's all gonna be okay.
matt r Feb 19
rang around
in some exo
skeletal way.

even the gardens
of carbon, the cilia
lilies, don't rebuff
the sound of Him.
matt r Feb 17
the foxtail dropped like a heavy
eyelid - never has there been a
silver thread to tie it to the sky.
matt r Feb 17
you pocket atoms like copper
coins - string me a necklace
to match my raw wind scarf.
"we put on
the raw wind like a scarf"

sylvia plath - love is a parallax
matt r Feb 17
i'll caress a bullet with teeth
akimbo - to see your navel
skin the moon a button eye.
Next page