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2d · 38
a letter to Me
matt r 2d
dear Me,

another day of the rise&fall, and how do you feel? i am not a lover of narrative, but let me clear in my mind:

I woke up three times last night. it's been a common occurence recently, but never the same time. you'd think there are only so many times one person can wake up in a night but nothing feels the same; yesterday's two is todays three.

the waking is fine (I have always been clear about My love of the pursuit of living; I was never tired of it, and every moment has always been a gift.) now, though, I am tired of the very window of realisation that the day is real. do you understand? waking is parasympathetic & wonderful. it happens to Me. the sun, the birds, the music. it all happens to everyone, and it always will. even the deep stretching, the yawning, will happen before I am truly awake.

but today, like clockwork, there was the day. My mam always told Me that I was naturally a depressive like her, and that I had all her worst sides. I disagree with the latter, but to think she feels like this too makes me want to sit between her legs on the sofa like I used to when I was young, and tell her how much I love her. I can't though, and My mind knows that.

it's always love, see? I feel like I just have too much of it. I feel slightly overfilled and quite precariously placed. I realise what that means to say, and I hope my family and friends feel the love I feel for them, but it does not feel enough. That is something to say.

romanticism, though, is reason I will spill. I have written a lot of poetry about the girl I fell in love with this year, she used to read them, and I really felt she was it. I think she understood Me. That is to say she does not read them anymore. it's hard to feel anything after the riveting certainty I felt with her.

it's always love. one day I will learn to love Myself, or find love, or maybe neither or maybe both. today, though, I am alone and the day is here.

write soon.
2d
citrus
matt r 2d
write like expansion                     (the difference
                                                     b­etween
                                             my love & others)
an instant flash,it
is        a shooting
inevitability                          & fills the form of
                                            its space       like
                                                love    is lemonade.
there is no slow burn
,not here. only there.
only where she ripens                 the next ready
                                                   set of citrus
                                                        to­ ****.
matt r 3d
as if painted by chalk
     crags of sound mind
lean over me.        i say

that's a lot for one
man to-

           & a fat lavender
rock falls into a lake..
david berman,you always were
3d · 31
sevens
matt r 3d
it is newness of feeling
good. silverring day, and i
do miss you dearly, makes
a waking breeze a luxury.

sevens get easier, it will
all be okay, but then all
i see is leaves in tandem.
sulferring,harsh newness.
4d · 82
morning,red
matt r 4d
prayers seep in,under
the window frame; it is

sanctimonious to say
the least. when i admire

the church spire,i see it
all lined up. it will come

like morning,red&glory
us,such is    the loving
everything is so far removed
5d · 53
commaless
matt r 5d
& no break in the night

crease the crisp
            sleeves of it

pocket firebugs too.

my living room     it is
       red as all finality

see     outthere. dances
everywhere      & it is      
     
   oh    such a thing

                        love    me
Aug 6
til green
matt r Aug 6
unsame morning falls out
my window, onto a little

boy's head. red mixing amber
glows, i will wait til green

rays of night fall, look north.
head up, & look to my window.
matt r Aug 6
tracing        wound,         shooting
star      skates      a      particular
           black     pond     of     night.

see       the       silvery       remark
           cross       my       heart.
(born      under      cauterising)
Jul 29 · 55
loving Her
matt r Jul 29
loving Her is like a peach,so juicy
in its richness,reach     up the clouds
                                 ,pluck off
Your sweet,     candy Love is Your reason
     to be.
Her beauty lies    in trees,seas,  bees
                       abuzz
the flowers knees,  the ecstasy of Love
is all:         a stream, a lake, a waterfall.

if Love is weather, plantlife,     & water
is limerence then her sickly daughter?

peaches **** wasps to them,wasps reach
                                          clouds,&
reap mayhem. trees are sappy, seaful salt
   could turns bees honey to liquor&malt.
I am thinking of Her, time is ticking,
          flame of love eats candles wicking
so look
upon Her face,& see       Love        is gone.
this is the last one. i can't do this.
matt r Jul 29
locking gaze (Yours,
    fleeting rabbit)
,must have kindled
something merriweather

growingred,like a
puddle who was spilled
            kittenish,
i saw You where I was;

in Love, &   advancing.
matt r Jul 29
lived one & i have lived
them all. breaking the

morning like coffee;bitter
-ness flows throughout.

if i reach up with a tea
spoon, stir the sky

to a milkshake, note the
cloudform pareidolia down;

well, the weatherpeople
must be artists too.
Jul 28 · 23
moon (entropy)
matt r Jul 28
i think of morning
formation,the rays
parallel & so well
behaved. i am a
man loving daylight

& You are moonlight
on the water. only
if it were glass,or
We never cycled at
all; We are in love.
Jul 28 · 42
jim-jam
matt r Jul 28
You are why I am      here so early;

hoped to see,&just see,

not say a word.

===============================

& You are there;

at home with Him,eyeing

Love's great    big omelette eyes.
matt r Jul 26
I know,   (I see)   You clearly. I know

(You see)    it so. I know    (You feel Me)

,clearly You know    (I know You)   ,no.
Jul 26 · 83
intercity riding
matt r Jul 26
intercity, riding the
stillworn lovelines

(the long blue string)

our hearts are just
buildings to live in
Jul 25 · 19
a letter to J
matt r Jul 25
dear You,

You said you weren't gonna read these anymore, so let this float about in the void. for a little while, at least.

We spoke today for the first time in a while. it's been a few weeks really but it feels like years have passed faster. it's like since I've known You, time has been a wheel with You at the centre, & now I do not have You, she has toppled.

We spoke today for the first time in a while, and I think You saw why. We can not be friends, my dear. each time I see You in Love's long corridor My heart skips, My stomach turns. I have spent weeks crying tears over You, not sleeping over You, finding it hard to breathe over You. it is not Your fault, & I do not even dislike You. the opposite. I want nothing more then to talk to You, but I cannot do it anymore.

this week was the first time I felt in control of myself, but We spoke today, and now that is gone. You have to let Me get over You. I cannot keep not sleeping over You. You must pick up Love's wheel and push it on, my Love.

I know you miss Me. I miss You too, and I think We would have made something magnificent.

write soon
write soon
Jul 25 · 50
algal.bloom
matt r Jul 25
once nothing before
it was around      Me,

consuming, chemical
imbalance.  a photon

too much      here,a rivet
for something to   grow,

algal bloom was coming
,the green is so    aglow
Jul 24 · 78
sharpsmooth
matt r Jul 24
folded,sharpsmoothly,
,cross My spinal range

I'm as belonging to Her
as My shape is strange
Jul 24 · 52
holy(ing)
matt r Jul 24
her gilded grooves,i
left on Your neck.

dipping a body in
magnificence(holying

names of women)& She
is richer than she,,,
Jul 24 · 38
cirrus
matt r Jul 24
there's magpies everywhere
,do You see them     scaling
laddering   cirrus clouds

She breathes deeply ,blows
feathers 'cross the horizon
,today we will fly the same
Jul 23 · 65
do You want me,like
matt r Jul 23
my neck wants the
raw wind?    bitter

,biting cool&swallow
ing whole      yet,so
the flavour of winter
Jul 23 · 49
macrocovet
matt r Jul 23
do not breathe,in
reflection of the
pulsing macrocosm,

'stead covet her
bending form. she
is not,but living
Jul 22 · 57
You must let Me go
matt r Jul 22
throw the slowing force
       ,spin&dive,loose
in a falling way.       You
must let Me go. centre
Me into cosmos & I will
drift on to another love.

please,please let me go
Jul 22 · 116
in pixiefields,
matt r Jul 22
obtain,Gardengirl,
& plant me
        
              deep
er
    than    anemone

(days wilt like U)

sunshine,midjuly,
will bide his time

(& when pixies
        ,braiding
with his light,
parade  in cars of
golden bluegreen)

then   i will wake
a perfect Rootboy,

&     ,I will expand
under every love (
but Urs) & nurture
foreverness,always
Jul 22 · 48
negative tension
matt r Jul 22
palmed into her mouth as she
was the sun
    
  O                      swallowing

the texture of recursive ***


'there is no tension      o
here', any more.      

0                                 space
                           is colder than
the interlinking of    'spheres
Jul 21 · 52
(instrumental)
matt r Jul 21
she stood,playing
the crossword
    like her great
        double bass,
& i wondered
what would get
   tired first ,,,
        her feet or
            her head
matt r Jul 21
my dad's wedding ring around
my neck    i press it to my lips

imbued,not half,with promise

           love is a cool gold band
Jul 21 · 64
once more,to see Her
matt r Jul 21
discarded cigarette packet,wet
&mulchy,lines up the morning

no smoking ecstasy in store,fog
descends    reduces all to atoms
Jul 20 · 67
sweet nectar,Herness
matt r Jul 20
inside wetwarm purity
is a slow release,a growing
curve undecadent,,

   excellent

                          , in Its
                         thieving
                         guttural
                        pleasure,

selfishly stalking Her spinal
arch  
      
         (itself,reduced
          to waveform)

~~~ ~ ~~  ~ ~   ~   ~ ~~ ~ ~~~~~

Her
undecadence spills    &
washes

supple.rolling.landscapes

til we are unclean with Her
'ness
        
               sweet
               nectar,
               Her'ness
like 'i Saw in Her eyes'
matt r Jul 20
(puppets passion like
fruit falls) strikes.

it is new,cushioned
as softness but carries
airs of bruising

..not bruising,overripeness,
& it is as sweet as wanting
love,something else entirely.
Jul 20 · 43
l'aero
matt r Jul 20
touch love
,softsoap into breathing
the same feathering air.
bleeting new calflove

,touch,,fall
into it & roll with
love's drunk punches
,commands more glancing..

eyes, are blue
,& love is tall,
wears red & shoes lifts
e,namour amour
Jul 19 · 138
le chat noir
matt r Jul 19
i am weary of the
longing;     the black
cat blinksslow.    i
am tired of the loving
,loving take me home
Jul 19 · 55
kravitz
matt r Jul 19
coooool me down, cats. its two
ay em & im thinking of You.

its funny,really(You're so done).
You're so done & yet You're like

watercolour. persistent in Your
always breathesome manoeuvre,

You should be,by universal right,
here. it ain't over til its over.
Jul 17 · 39
le metro
matt r Jul 17
she tilted'yes', with love
in her eyes. the rattling

experience of time spent
together?forever. who is

the authority on love;he
wears a belt&tickets hope
Jul 17 · 70
la seine
matt r Jul 17
she picked up her plastick heart
,fingered the edge of love &

swept.   the aspect of the man
,read poetry,acted soft. we are

all,, so soft. the dusktime settles
into our cheeks; le soir rouge.
Jul 17 · 128
naïve envious
matt r Jul 17
naïveenvious,queasy
like aurora comes,

plants her many dream
-like feet into earth/I

**** up raw life,a funny
little biological straw
Jul 17 · 57
love you to love me
matt r Jul 17
flat,on the grand scale of things,
where confidence boys chinupwalk

way into her hearts(trying anyway).
i am not rocking,   metaphysically

still,  my mood swims on the ceiling
,doing its funny little backstroke.
Jul 17 · 51
use My body,as
matt r Jul 17
a sliver of the moon
.rub starry lather
  'cross        hotwax
formations,rivets
in exploratory
                 'fections.

textured lovin' is
a spacewalk,baby
Jul 15 · 65
a brutal thing,to want
matt r Jul 15
love is the unkind thing
(purposeful & exacting)
,yit its wide arms hold
(truth in abundance,&)
me,to rub away the sore

things ,peel out under
(eyes,chin,sternum,waist&)
bedsheets,so it is always
(drawing out sweat,you are)
close to me. a hurting thing.
Jul 15 · 64
dread of Love.
matt r Jul 15
who are You,really,in Your
  mythical beauty?
who are You really to              pin
                                             ­      twist
real pain    inside of Me?

"just a Girl",driftinglikejune,
  & I am so               (un)lucky to
have sewn My (stupid)  gaze
           in this            (mis)fortune.

commit Myself completely
  to the dread of    Love.       I am
feeling so hurt&sorry               , I
am so soft&melancholy.   growup.
Jul 14 · 47
gentle,fin,gering
matt r Jul 14
keep up                 ,Hope.
do I pray,nearly for      You,
,
,Yes         like         the crying of
                         cupids
        & the  gentle,fin,gering
                               ofthe  lyre
matt r Jul 14
second chance at        ?
                                    what
this                 ­               ?
this       unloving of Kizmitism

?no,   I think I would rather
                                     .    sip up
  the Pain   ,directly from
         the Pool itsself

You have lost Me in the Water

& that is       living like a Wave
                                   returning
into & into & into Itsself
                         ...       returning
into You & You & You
Jul 14 · 51
utter unblueness
matt r Jul 14
utter unblueness, cursing
my outward future
                                  i am
falling.        roundacircle

(into & into & into myself)

slowing,gravitate wards
  dizzing perplexity
& enjoy it,oh so deeply,

i am god's hopeless agent
Jul 14 · 52
(blueing of the moon)
matt r Jul 14
i am growing into this
               cobalt
               speed way,,
   as if dipping limbs
           , silvering,
never seem to end
Jul 12 · 150
starlight
matt r Jul 12
do not kiss his waning cheek
,like starlight tempts        a
reckless fishhook          ,no.

kiss Me,     & lie entangled
in      diffusing light of
galaxy. it warms your neck,

(& My hand), drawing vincent's
starry night   til you are asleep
in the cradle of love's creation.
Jul 12 · 82
favourite
matt r Jul 12
reading the morning like
a broadsheet newspaper
,i opened a page of poetry;

'my favourite' She wrote. a
note i think She left for me.
i dropped the poem to see

how pretty You flourish Your
e's. the careful touch, not
quite a movie kiss, lighter

& grazing the page with love.
'my favourite' dogeared one
i set for You, 'the private view'.
peter bennet - the private view
*as if in a film by eric rohmer*
Jul 11 · 71
sweetpea
matt r Jul 11
the firstly buttered lick of
  'who do i share this with?'
i am here,boasting my yard,
& the sun is warming her
   with tenderness.

She could set my soul free.
with Her finger, tilt
back my head til i loosen
         in a solar jacuzzi.
She could warm me too.
Jul 10 · 175
raze
matt r Jul 10
raze          the dead
flowers&grass cuttings.
the beetles walk around
all funny;owed some
new lease of life i think.
Jul 9 · 69
pine
matt r Jul 9
& now You are gone, as
moonlight was ever there,

& it is all so expansive.
loves swelling undercurrent.
Jul 9 · 63
olive
matt r Jul 9
little Magpie, dancing your rooftop
waltz. your wingtips catch my eye

,into dizzy love, & now i see
one thousand two of a kinds.
this kinda reads too clunky idk im too ****** to tell.
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