got caught up talking
balked through the window and fell through the back door
umbrella still in bloom
left rings of condensation as footsteps
and also frostbite in 60 degree weather
and also footsteps for nobodies to follow
freaked out by stale nature
valley-cracked teeth
translucent petals poking through nag champa clouds
lost spider solitaire
twenty-one times in a row
lost all the gaba napping in classrooms
and spinning circles around itself
untuned cerebellum in atrophy against the spins
lost it
won an advil liqui-gel
and quickly quit:
jumped off the peak of its dose-response curve
into the pool of a hallucinogenic july
doesn’t matter:
komorebi’s turned apocalyptic;
sunset's turned subvision
now you make shadows on the mirror and wet-floor signs on the tile
get caught in spiderwebs not a foot outside your bedroom
blast faith through android speakers suffocating in her comforter
drown your plants in ***** water
never heard a silver lining
only eat up deserts
for the cacti that’ll propagate later in your throat:
a seventy-five cent zinnia’s last whiskey-driven photosynthesis
rootbound
Jan 26, 2025
Jan 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM UTC
got caught up talking
balked through the window and fell through the back door
umbrella still in bloom
left rings of condensation as footsteps
and also frostbite in 60 degree weather
and also footsteps for nobodies to follow
freaked out by stale nature
valley-cracked teeth
translucent petals poking through nag champa clouds
lost spider solitaire
twenty-one times in a row
lost all the gaba napping in classrooms
and spinning circles around itself
untuned cerebellum in atrophy against the spins
lost it
won an advil liqui-gel
and quickly quit:
jumped off the peak of its dose-response curve
into the pool of a hallucinogenic july
doesn’t matter:
komorebi’s turned apocalyptic;
sunset's turned subvision
now you make shadows on the mirror and wet-floor signs on the tile
get caught in spiderwebs not a foot outside your bedroom
blast faith through android speakers suffocating in her comforter
drown your plants in ***** water
never heard a silver lining
only eat up deserts
for the cacti that’ll propagate later in your throat:
a seventy-five cent zinnia’s last whiskey-driven photosynthesis
rootbound
--written sept. 24, 2019--
