I’ve imagined it so many times that the weight and the cold touch feel natural to me. But in my imagination, I always see what happens after.
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III – The Egg
And so You incubate,And learn to crawl,So we may one day take to the stars. Constellations in a fractal kaleidoscope,Each more significant than the whole,Expanding Infinitely and Infinitely magnificent,For Him to behold.And to behold Him. You are the egg,The seed.And...
Midsummer Sun
You are the midsummer sunGleaming off pellets of rain in a late afternoon drizzle. I find myself dancing among the endless glitter,For the clouds cannot block your light.
Hush
Hush, my love For my feelings are not your burden
Crepuscule
When the sunlight hits just right And the edges of your narrow world shimmer and crack You can catch a glimpse of forever And realize all at once That you have all you need And you are already happy
Hope
A man gardens each morning. His knees ache and his arm isn’t as steady as it once was. But the routine brings him a feeling he can’t quite place. He stays out well past lunch time, to his wife’s contempt. A woman spends her mornings in the garden. Her back aches and...
Holes
Rhythmic shockwaves ripple through her.Thump. Thump. Thump.Suppress.And just like that the pounding in her head dulls to a hum.That voice. That grating voice. “Mom, it’s me. You’re alright.”Gentle hands pull the sewing needle from hers.But these days she resembles the...
Sixteen
I ask someone to homecoming. She says yes. I talk to my librarian about him. She hugs me while I cry. I get a 100 on my English essay. I leave school for a funeral. He was sixteen.
II – The most significant thing in the universe
And yet He welcomes You to His table. He nurtures You and cherishes You. For You are the most significant thing in the universe. --- Reflections of The Damned If there is some ideal state for the universe (call it God's will, utilitarian optimality, or something we...
Great Basin
I’ve put my soul in a box and sent it West. Past the magnificent Appalachian forests. Across the great rolling Midwest plains. Over the vast towering Rockies. Through the bone dry deserts of the Southwest. All tethered up in twine, wrapped a thousand layers thick, the...
Baseline
Man’s ineptitude is only disappointing when compared against expectations of competence. Man’s failures are only disheartening when met with expectations of success. Man’s setbacks are only discouraging when measured against expectations of effortless growth. But life...
I – An Ant
Would you dare?Look into the eyes of GodAnd claim to understand His desires? Would you dare?Claim a seat at God's tableAn ant upon an equal throne? To behold His will is to be Infinite.To behold Infinity is to be God. But you are an antCrawling upon His...
Black Speck
Her toes curl and pull up tufts of grassThe springtime breeze sings a muted melodyHer eyes fixate on the hole at the northern horizonA black speck among the infinite sea Above, the sun is flanked by cloudsAnd clouds by concave mountains crownedA stunning sight to...
Pitter-Patter
It’s in the quiet moments we lose ourselvesIn the gaps between the somethingsFiltered through the cracks in our souls Age is beauty in wholenessGrasping for the last few dropsOf nascent blood in ancient soul World seen true in century's timeWorth its weight in old A...
Never-Ending Dream
The tidal wave returned to seaBut left behind its memoriesChildren embrace under the starsAre they us or are they ours?
Her mother kept butterflies
A tattoo flutters daintily up from her sternumTo the top of her shoulderTwo butterflies in playful chaseAs the flow of time runs thin It begins with a benign growth in the breastBut a year melts byAnd the reassurances slow to a trickleShe can still hear her mother’s...
The best day ever
It hurts when I wake up in the morning. But the boy gives me the nasty pill and I feel better. He gives me treats and he doesn’t get mad when I make a mess this time. He takes me out on a walk. He smiles but he smells sad. He doesn’t yell at me when I get excited and...
Sunrise
“The deer who hesitates will not meet Winter’s bite. And the deer who waits will be left behind, never to see the first rays of Spring.” It’s too much to process for our young doe. The herd has already crossed The Great Divider, save for Mother. Mother has helped her...
If there is a hell, I have seen it
I did not think much of it then, but I soon learned there would be a term for me: a survivor. It is a heavy word. It implies that more people have died than have lived. That one’s life has grown valuable at the hands of a tragedy.
Sunset
I will be sunset soon.The super-mesolimbic (SML) structure was first identified by geneticists in the mid-21st century. Early CRISPR trials for increasing neural gray matter consistently produced a malformed mesolimbic pathway. Animal subjects with this defect were...
Kitten Mittens
I carefully, ungracefully, and unsuccessfully try to pick up the slip of paper. I try again, but I can’t get my kitten mitten-ed fingers under the paper. I hate when this happens. I bend over to read the paper, and, thankfully, the words are on the top side. I read,...
Where Time Stands Still
Have you been to the place Where time stands still, And a lifetime is measured In the momentary lapses Of a softly thumping heart? It is the instant between Euphoria and tragic despair.
Ehrenberg
maybe I'm in my headI think I’ll stay a bit longerhopeless and I'm running outof reasons to be stronger your hands are gonna rustyou’ll suffer on your ownyou’ll remember when you wakethe testimony of your soul ancient talks of this decayput out like a cigaretteyou and...
Do you hear them?
Do you hear them?The heavy suffering,The endless pain?No, you do not.A dozen million will die this year.The silent multitudesYearning for your scraps.What have you done?
At Odds
We face this paradoxical situation: life is improving quickly for the vast majority of people, but inequality is increasing faster than ever before. All throughout history, life has changed slowly. Occasionally degrading quickly, during times of war and famine. But we...
Her job is to destroy the world.
When the Soviets threatened nuclear strikes against every major city in the United States, we did not build a defense system. We did not attack or negotiate. We didn't even build an arsenal. We built a single bomb - aimed at the core of the Earth. The press of a...
The Last Duet
Let’s meet at the end of the universe, my love. And as the last dying stars fizzle out,And the supernovae shower us with stardust,And the background melody begins to fade,And blackness stretches to oblivion, As we glimpse the finale,The last two hearts before a...
Reflection
To my right a lonely path leads me off the main roadHesitantly, I choose to take itAnd on the other end I find a turquoise gem Beyond a cliff, seafoam dusts the sparkling limestoneAnd brings life to an empty place But life is all around Above, hatchlings squeal in...
Max-imum Barks
“Uhh yeah, I’ll have the... coffee please.”“How would you like your coffee, sir?”“Umm, I’ll just have it uh, plain... Thank you.”I felt the next three people in line cringing, and honestly I couldn’t blame them. I was taking a girl out on a date to get coffee, and I...