~continue reading

in order to create successful poetry

one must first write a poem

& then [in theory]

unbraid each sentence

divide and conquer each syllable

move them sideways away from any

illusion of sunlight
and continue due south, the

direction which words inhabit

even the unholiest

of curves

& fill the airpockets of

bare lungs

& pulse a bloodstream

like fifty-two shades

of red, or

perhaps poetry requires nothing

of us

      one part weather

      two parts living hands

      and a shadow the shape

      of a tree

you see, leaves will always remember

how to fall away when the

roots are too afraid to be

exposed

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