Tag: falling in love

• January 10, 2022

  A Soliloquy for Dead-Ends

  A tree branch brandishes its silhouette  And hides the stucco pattern, flourishing  Across the wall.  A leaf trembles in the wind. Pauses.  Before its stem snaps and lets go Of the leaf.  Impulses obligate an outstretched hand To snatch the leaf from wind patterns. Fingers grasp the loose foliage  And dollar bills within the same…
• November 18, 2021

  sunflower shade

  for: C.C. Sunflower plots, complicit in rows  Deem Soft Instructions To clean  Their Petals. Human showers imitate rainfall. Recognizing nature’s will  As love. Reflections hide details  In the infrastructure.  By staging the process  For belief. Organic: Drop. Touch. Breaks. Plastic: Drop. Touch. Breaks. Deception beguiles the labored habit, Assuming, “This worked before Why not try…
• November 8, 2021

  History Restricts What Time Gives (and love too)

  1. A railing design, wracked in nuance, habituates purpose to normalize the human lean. A bird perches on the pole, uses it as a stage to croon and seduce potential lovers. An ant wanders out of rank and file, begins to climb up the rod in honor of the Hive, to service the Queen. It…
• June 5, 2021

  Sad Person Qualifications

  Top floor apartments shelter stair noises, no longer content belonging to levels, they die where brick and stucco meet the morning fog. But the hollow footsteps compete for space within the soundscape, challenging my neighbors, arguing in Spanish, deaf translations to my English trained brain, it’s the tone I recognize and door slams and whimpering,…
• October 7, 2020

  Hot Take: Falling in Love

  Apprehending the tonal qualities of slumbering roots Mapping designations for growth, Displayed in the silent drift of pollen  Taking to Icarus’  Down- Fall. Stepping out of his house,  Keeping hands occupied  By making shadow puppets      for entertainment: broadcasted: in earnest To the stage of Noon  And the basement shows of beyond workday acquittal.…