"untillable" poems
some nights i think i am cain without an abel
i hate my brother for never having been
i carry him, keep him, like he happened
he is heavy and i have never met him
i would hate him if he was flesh and i wish he were me
i killed him before he was alive, ruined eve's body by living
i am the first poisoned crop that made the field untillable
i killed him as he slept and i hadn't met him yet
some nights i hear him around the house
he lives in the gaps in my mother and father's conversation
some nights i think i am cain
missing an abel more for never having held him
Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024 at 8:06 PM UTC
Fallow;
ice scarred and sun scorched,
untilled and untillable,
thrush, worn, and wasted
Bones of the land,
grow inward from the shore
White coral sand blossoms
and burns at the edges;
dry, blasted
our broken lands
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 9:21 PM UTC