agreement

I figured it out we’ll go to a desert town that’s interested in the healing properties of crystals. It will be so red and old there, and money will be no object to me: I’ll spend it all on crystals. Tourmaline detoxifies. Amethyst improves your sleep. Believe in them with me.

april 2018

Wind flew in tree-
branch & cascaded
to the brown bird’s
beak, & noisily into
green mouth of the
glass bottle in your
right hand. So that
clear liquid spilled
onto the meadow.
That was April of
2018. It was so hot.
I didn’t want a dog.

apology

Nails chalk-
board kitchen
furious-lovable
sparrow. But do
you still like my
good side? Slush-
puddle filled with
mud: I dive in. It
looks so desirable
to me, like rotten
fruit when you are
starving. You know
error message over-
heating, electrical
transformer sparks,
that was in my dream, do you know my neighbor?
His catalytic converter
was stolen and he found
out on his way to work.

new taxonony

palpable things:
cold, hardwood, cold.

non-palpable:
The absence, when you didn’t want them to leave. Just the immediate aftermath—where you left them. It gets carried away in the wind.

palpable things:
bedsheets, zippers, skin, ash, burn-holes.

non-palpable:
Quiet and affection—personal favorites, because they can’t be held on to. And not like that. I do what I can to take them. It’s the difficulty