#coldbrewpoetry
Age can offer no gentle tear
In reflection nothing is hidden
Neither the toil, neither the sorrow
The eyes are peculiar
Haunting trust and peace
Each weather lines
And each passion lifted
The hardened rose remains
Bruised petals, dull
Mar 12
Mar 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM UTC
Near the waters edges hides the warehouses of paper, lenses and ink.
It's a used district in the city but not the outskirts. The businesses use the bay to reach out to the state lines. Across, on the next shore are all the transit hubs reaching the rest of the coast. Also the larger of two airports so the shift from one waters edge makes some dollars add right.
There are still many ties to the outskirts like all the boutique landmarks and historical building districts. Art like those buildings can't be found any other place. Some people are lucky and have their names atop the shops here. Over time you eventually do some business with one or at least became friends with some in school.
Feb 28
Feb 28, 2026 at 11:39 PM UTC
You may live under my mask hollowed creating madness
But why then the crying
As you dream of loving banter beneath the our breaths
Why also the contempt
What illness you concoct simply
People are used in your chagrin
Are we to be deceit
Twice posed in the opportune
I, forced in the gowns,
You oiled from the mines
In exchange of me there is always yourself, cold husk and overdone
Only once am I, never the compliment, confess of yourself
Feb 24
Feb 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM UTC
"The city is hiding defeat John. It's being worn out in a trend. Each day a new number shelters the incoming, bleached surprise fashions the scent. Also the up and at 'em calls married the burgundy brunch club. Gotta watch that conversation. However they move they do it at a cost."
"I've noticed some flocks are dwindling Constance. Now you are on to a lead I have to get new lenses working on. Not my prescription. Haven't spotted the labor shifts just yet either, you?"
"Whoever came into the city isn't greased over front row, that lines set and getting ready to be weighed by Josey and Sue Ellen. They seem sure City Hall and the Municipal Affairs Building are maligned. Say soon the two accounts are ready for a deposit."
Feb 22
Feb 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM UTC
Oblong division
Rendering brick spiderwebs
Explaining symmetry
Excitement under the mundane
Feeding a log rented musings
Remembering not to freeze while out of rent
Tent building with satellite antenna
Art executions about class warfare while erecting toaster exhibits
Refusing eggs until a riot erupts
Stucco induced laughing fits
Absorbing down feather pillows
Finally exposing chimps for crimes
This has and hasn't been done well
Advocating whale and giraffe landlord tenant rights
This cause is in severe need of satire
Feb 21
Feb 21, 2026 at 4:53 PM UTC
There's a landing in life, just for show. It lets you get back to the training wheels and coordinate with the tower chasing you to the thin end. Could be the reason we buy hats also.
"Theatrics and spoils Mr. Garter, it's the hottest new tin."
"Suppose wars weren't in the merchandise, where then the spoils?"
"Right here at home Chief."
"Sure as day Joe, the cahoots keep a watch ready, fine tuned as a yacht."
"Joe, you ever mistake your reflection for the print stumbling over a lunch rush? I dream some nights too, can't make a penny out of it."
"I gather I retreat from older seas more than most if I follow sir."
"You do. What about on chance our lady liberty or lady luck, whichever's your prime rib, goes in on an idea outside of your noodles. Do we abandon ship or study the art of the toss?"
"Can't be the bridesmaid boss, haven't called in the reserves yet."
Feb 20
Feb 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM UTC
On the stockroom floor at three a.m. handing coffee to the delivery guys who couldn't hide their distaste seeing the rejection letter professional scrambling eggs for a living.
"Another tough go this week Josey. You're not alone, that Misses Washington lady just left the executive elevator for the coffee shop."
"What topic's pass for civil hours from deadline Misses Washington?"
"You passing me or you got spare change for an old war buddy Josey?"
"Words aren't on discount lately ma'am. Forever and a day I'm not likely to wait around for in order to chew leftovers. However there is a lot of trumpet blaring the new elected will find in a frame today. Meaning they could actually get mugged."
"You tell the old harbor raft story another time Joe, I'm in love with hot soup for an hour."
Disposable rhetoric lines and neon expiration warnings walk the same minutes through the snow and rain as all of us.
The just part of a lunch break. Old familiar darts being tossed inside a whirlwind of loss. The barrels almost filled and we are only trying to roll with the punches.
Feb 20
Feb 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM UTC
The cold in its giving
Takes the skin, reviewing the leaps
While tensing the mind,
A warming in the exchange of heart
Rebuilding the pulse
And chasing the rain
The cold weeps in grieving
As the fire disrupts
The cauldron and the pit
Ice boughing unsteadily, yielding to touch
The fire examines too far
The elements of a soul extended
A spirit to barter approaching the end
Feb 18
Feb 18, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC
"When weight begins pulling, who is it absorbing the shift John? A city can move across town, chat with a friend and never move a muscle. Having a returned print is one hard sell the second it's in your hand, but the glimpse a competitor hides just might answer the call you've been waiting on."
"Expense and trade cover most of our skies Josey. Times not fooled when someone doesn't show, so being the big look from above evens out all of our odds on occasion. Try taking a merchant on a conversation passed an order, familiarity reaches this far overworking your welcome."
"John, the points gonna be around often enough. Given a couple of hints a guy will usually land his hand on a button and it is nice being able to turn it all on in the moment."
"I was just thinking we should ring the gals Josey."
Feb 11
Feb 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM UTC
Meeting Mr. Garter at a new building, the guys expect an all night interview with a big story. Turns out there is more to the job than immediate headlines.
"We made an old Observer lensman happy and I swindled one of his precious Ivory towers off of him"
"Hey Chief, what do we want with a divorcee's debauchery apartment?"
"Real class Josey, you're worth every dollar in the pinch, you're definitely mine tonight, huh?
"Listen John, grab some cushion with Josey. The make of a quarterly doesn't come at you ahead of time, it's the lithographs, the toner's rent on the high rises that takes the city out."
"Say I got news on a new mover Chief. I mean a solid hand in the crunch, can I meet him between the eyes from up here and announce him while I steal the advertising layouts?"
"Now's the time John, roll it on your people who get doors to work, promise 'em front page exposure if it makes them smile their paid in full."
"Or how far into the night competitor A goes while competitor B spends ransom notes across half the state Josey."
"You know I can paint Chief."
"Sure can, color film costs a big gamble so give me 'till Thursday for the work ups Chief."
"Got yourself an appointment Josey, John, your okay with the timeline?"
"Yup, good to go boss."
Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
How her oiled canvas ran over me
A cold flower bed
Mid crescendo in the morning light
Embattled sunlight's splitting blues
Yellow canary sun dressing her shoulders
As the white spill of layered brush just beneath
Leading her uprising
Her painters overalls scraped off upon
No longer drab
Trailing in her caps wake
Her old attitude
Feb 8
Feb 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM UTC
You're twice beat
Shaded in that way again
Under an assumption
No heading only retreating lights
It's Diagnostic sincerity
Oh and your rushed about what?
Afraid assumptions your ease
To which nails hum and refine
Outside in their life
Or catching their cold edge while not involved on holidays
Choked inward the loss of air is so thick
New malady every nuance that furnishes against you more weaponry
Schedule a conflict
True you are the spectacle
But know better sits across documents
Documents day becomes impersonal
Get that true
Voice exhaustion breaks radiator bills off in your numb hands
This is your circulation reading sir
Have a nice day.
Next
I am a print jammed
No news coming out
Forced intersection of my life
They take home pay and off my lines
Never crossed a person
But this way stands
Out in the ordinary I see and read
Involved with clerics calling shots yes that's all but I can too
Off my disbelief an assembly
Joined at college
Not evened out
Doubt and slack show up on me
Degrees of temperature differ hours of poise
In typical dress I'ma mess
Conversation takes the blues and I'm outta fashion
The delegates moved beyond contraction
Informal jar is gone with my vernacular
I'm consequential advertising butter gone hard
Only appointed to a moment to get scraped on
Now I'm the program
Used to be used as poor
Connect to the door
Poverty
It's my name and my contours
Filling in the bored out holes in my corpse
It supports measure and success
You're next
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM UTC
I ask can the fabric take time
Being so colored and fine
And I visit the repulsing side
A part from me unkind
A part with an itch
Which hates in order to grow
I cannot erase the letter
Remaining from before I was sold
I film my desperate intention
Disabling the sewing
I fear the heavy snow
The baby I was is harmed creating a new escape as I learn
No innocence will he allow
This child perceives the mourn inside
Removing the latch
I retrieve from him my silk woven tree
Now flowing and begging to be free
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM UTC
Sitting huh, sitting realizes you became capable of arriving. Finding is for your youthful distrust of instinct, ordered structure and then you have the sharpened mind.
I became Misses Washington professionally. A recurring process beneficial in it's involvement while the larger group isn't offered another path.
Creating a main course, out siding the keep, got me up the stairs to an interview. Inside of the timing of this conversation, buildings were mentioned, and eventually elevator keys entered my hand.
The give that takes you and takes to give.
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM UTC
"Ever found a missing coat riding along on someone else's subway just for the conversation?"
"Hard to imagine the whole scenario Misses Washington, much less understand why."
"Understand me for a quarter of the hour, walking back the lost pages of news in my legs, Josey."
"Sure!"
"I've beat myself to the subway and the ferry, running ahead of the schedule. I've evened every tip at the restaurant checkout filling my pride. Still in all the running of a workday, how to find a job getting lost again?"
"I get you fine, new hire, getting lost with me only takes asking me how!"
"I go about turning out lost quite fine by myself still Josey ,but we can figure out why together, let's go."
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM UTC
The Puddle Girl
And her distant journey
Content not to know
Only saying goodbye
Giving in the after
Watching your films roll bye
Prompt in the credits
Absorbed by the swoon
Cherishing her beginning
Amongst the wandering buffoons
Mimes in silent nights
Days aboard flights
Dead pan humorist'
Hunting the obsolete
In her joy to be a round
She had circled and found
We became silent too
Beside the camera clues
Feb 7
Feb 7, 2026 at 10:50 AM UTC
Now while a single asks a double not to get on with it, but stick to it, feedback adjusts the standard one morning.
"How's the roll of ink managing Ellen?"
"All betting women ever join for is hiding why's, wise is good to me generally so we lowered our ink expense compared to the salesman's call Mr. Garter."
"Great news to fold up the coat on and spring for lunch, fancy a trolley out this morning?"
"Not enough to even know how to spell such a thing, but I do follow the scents in that."
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM UTC
"Hello Josey, happy this lonesome evening event?"
"All truths be told Connie, no place to let a frown roll out."
"Sure Josey, you're welcome to talk about it with the gals, let me put the outfit on the line with 'ya."
"I'm ready big guy, Country Ellen the slammer man, now what got 'ya into my slammer tonight?"
"Really Sue!"
"Sure as ribbons kid, let it out!"
"I'd rather be in John's coat right now. On his way, storms and all to the loneliest cup of quiet on the boulevard."
"The Hide Out!"
"What! Wait! Don't Say I Said!......"
Waterfronts aren't free or easy for Josey.
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM UTC
Fix in any tense used seems illegitimate and childish. Especially from behind the serving of the elected, seats arranged and cars arriving as in a funeral procession, no new news allowed.
Discerning group these folks are having scheduled without us. No telling that they ever arrived anywhere. Much is forfeit this far out of the loop.
"Suppose they could phrase the very sun itself out of a job Sue."
"The new experienced leader of immediately hear of this!"
"You absurdity Josey!"
"If need be this or need be that....
If left waiting for a doorbell or mailbox use alternative travel fast!"
"Reports from London say trains and hams are at odds with each other again."
"Pretty sharp Connie, you go first."
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM UTC
Ports swell as the heavens rise, hourly at the end of reason, ships lining the horizon. Being spent? Must be a lifetime lost to the whimsical brilliance of an ocean.
What is truly beyond description? Ending prompt service and getting somewhere else. Wise people shouldn't be waited on hand and foot, the wealth of the day would waste.
"Taking time back from the opposition, doing the undisguised night out, fancy a date?"
"John, I haven't another thought left on my mind."
"Ties & Caps Come Out holds no seats Misses Washington."
"John, at this hour I am resistant to interpretation, privatized and seemed in different stitching."
"Powerfully rendered useless Miss, you have quieted the academic insistence."
"No way to gather from where my thoughts are floating John."
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM UTC
In love I won't live
One dimensional gives
And this stage repels
Vertical summit
Cleave of immortal surrender
Before he?
Destitute blank
Immediate end
So as a painting falls alone
Inside I will ponder
Seas speak in parting
No more hiding
I'm wanting
And regressing beyond the first bite of words in a fight
The news
Hurtful I'm confused
Come back
The combat
The combat of coming in second
My words haul pain don't they?
I've seen living lunge through
Thrown out
It has to be good news
Nothing's happened yet
I only got to words
And walked into the paint
If I make it back to you welling up
I swear to be confused
You're no longer than my musing
But sharing is going to blend me
I'll be leaping without speaking from now
'Till I draw, you hear
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 6:43 PM UTC
In I am adapting
Exists
Two times, the more
Another letter taken
Misspelled, heartbreaking
And tied in false
But pre tensed
The exchange and
Raffle of
No, not epiphany
A harpsichord
On tour
Exuberance, devout
Silence of mirrors
They've come out
And about to steer
A ship mailed by
Friends out too
Defend my coverage
This refiled
accusation
A band dawning
In calculation
The lost pursuits
Haggled in dispute me verse
Still softened in
Tribute
To hear
Feb 6
Feb 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC
"All that can be inked? Should we go for a walk on that?"
"Or we could fetch the cabs towards downtown?"
"Let us take the tasks to downtown for some change."
"Bleak outlooks without any wisdoms Connie."
"John, all my tendency reports build streets, I can't find your folly alone "
Jan 26
Jan 26, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC
"Hemlocked during an interview? Well, recover another's words over and over until the foods gum."
"Once your food and I'm gum in the race, applying to eachothers topics is sure and as good as done you're a player."
"But Constance there is no way back in there, between Mr Garter, Misses Washington, you, and photography?"
"Characterizing an engagement is poor manners Josey, it leaves all the chaotic confidence up for discussion. No map, no controls, no sale. Contesting dilemmas is all your fishing for from there kid."
"Granting a lens too many facets or fascinated by table cloths measured just for the poor person is payment on schedule in the schmooze. It'll get you paying the tab every time rookie."
"Terribly bothered main course Josey, your closing shutters, losing audience, collapsing the high rise."
Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM UTC
Had she worried entirely under the guise of loving?
Prattled on selectively engaging topic hints and indifferent poise?
There, reflections of vanilla and dulling out, no confetti parade. Her toying along billboards, fella of the night....
"Constance, yes, are you up? It's Mr. Garter."
"Sured if that by the whispers of toying vanilla something you finished dialing with."
"Hassle of an article in Dear so and so style, you have the drum up on the male counter part yet?"
"Use of the new hire was all you big guy."
"Country, big guy is all bottles and ice about your acting bomb, wanna come clean?"
Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC