This Made Me Think of You Both

Outside a coffee shopShe was rummaging through Her greenhouse of a car,Flowers growing As if the seats were soil. She pulled out two children As her husband closed his door. She brought them + a small bucket of Flowers inside to the table, Where she + he built Bouquets with their kids watching. Silently arranging colorful fragrances, It felt like she was […]

Pain

When so many people Didn’t get to exist I should be grateful to feel Anything at all, Even if it’s the result of A mistake. Learning is a privilege.

Before

She picked glass out of my arm When I broke that window. She used the sunset to see glistens and Pulled them, grabbing softly, Taking away the reasons they were there.

Here’s a Person

Balancing theory and realityOne could be a prediction of afflictionBut in the present there’s affinity. What does that mean? There better be affliction. Love isn’t right, It’s the scar healing the knife. Grace is often too soft to handle. When it doesn’t look how you thoughtAnd you don’t want to think that you were wrongWhen […]

Things End

Things end. That’s tragic. The fact that they ever existed Feels like magic. I’m not a fan, Being tricked by perception Into thinking certain things are convention That some relationships will be forever. That she thought I was clever, That the answer would never be “never.” Life has a sleight of hand that Everyone sees […]

I know you better

It’s dark outAnd the sun’s still in the asphaltWe walk on itWith bare feet,And step on small pebbles softly. Cicadas make the silence ours.We hold hands sometimes It’s too late forLights in housesBut there’s a buzz of a street lightAnd we stand outside of itIn a tree’s shadowMade by the moon. We have our own […]

To You, For Me

I was going to marry you. We knew that. And you were going to marry me. I guess just I “knew” that. And because I did I wrote things for you. Things about how you can’t see light without a surface for it to land on, and you can’t hear snow without the wind and […]

Love Is In Everything

People think I’m something euphoric,experienced by few.But all of that struggle you’re going through,That’s me too.Struggle is a reminder that you exist,And now that’s tied to me,So see that it’s the same thing to have something asked of you,As it is to be told that you’re lovely. You’re lovely. And things happen to you because […]

Birthday Bench, Spring ‘18

The other day the weather was lovely so we had class outside at the professor’s slightest hesitation. We all picked up our bags and cups of tea and headed for the grass in the sun. There’s a bench that the class sits around. It’s a memorial bench with a plaque on its back for I’m […]

Smile at Me.

God do You smile?Does the Holy Spirit laugh?Did Jesus Christ snortWhen John tripped on his staff?Are these things in life too small to seeOr do they compound the mysteryOf what it means to be human?Of what it is to be in the image of You?Is humor an expression of Your truth?Or is it a mechanism […]