100 Day Project Three – Day 22
DAY 22 (July 3rd, 2018) BIRDSONG the boy was born a birdsong— the first note his God had strung on that distant, dew-wet morn. He stumbled like a child, b...
Tag: Poetry
100 Day Project Three – Day 21
DAY 21 (July 2nd, 2018) THE FALL OF ELEUS (fragment) I am the scribe Phyphea and from my sacred reed, the exploits of King Eleus, king of gleaming Onnalin: &ems...
100 Day Project Three – Day 20
DAY 20 (July 1st, 2018) LETTING GO there is something like death in it— this letting go. flushed and sodden, the heart grasps, like a shipwrecked child, a...
100 Day Project Three – Day 19
DAY 19 (June 30th, 2018) SPARROWS a ubiquity— a troupe of sparrows dance a soot brown feather hop and flit higgledy–piggledy between bread crumbs tossed l...
100 Day Project Three – Day 18
DAY 18 (June 29th, 2018) TIME IS A CRUTCH time is a crutch for the dying. hear yourself breathe. sense yourself distinct. a world presses in upon you like a mol...
100 Day Project Three – Day 17
DAY 17 (June 28th, 2018) A CITY IS BURNING (UNFINISHED) A city is burning on the riverfront, waxen spirits dance upon the embers— there are millions of th...
100 Day Project Three – Day 16
DAY 16 (June 27th, 2018) A MOMENT A moment weightless in love lingers in its own eternity it swept through you—a furious, elemental wind that felled you, ...
100 Day Project Three – Day 15
DAY 15 (June 26th, 2018) SILHOUETTE (UNFINISHED) An old woman knit a silhouette from a patchwork of dreams and threadbare trances, between wisps of moth-eaten m...
100 Day Project Three – Day 14
DAY 14 (June 25th, 2018) THE FLUTE (UNFINISHED) upon my deathbed I lie inert— enfeebled heart, mind aground, command lost and naught to follow— when I hear her ...
100 Day Project Three – Day 13
DAY 13 (June 24th, 2018) DRAWING A CIRCLE I drew a circle to find that God dwells in the beginning and the end— not in the fiery score seething from the orchest...