Storm clouds challenged the skyscraper’s attempt At censorship, Posting their gray scale Above the CEO’s important view. The type of view Laborers risk their lives To clear smudges From the window glass. Trees dropped their seeds And hijacked peripherals Acclimated to city plants Blending in with manufactured wood, Bordering storefronts And gentrified apartment complexes, ButContinue reading “Gentrified Global Warming”
Tag Archives: Nature
simple enough.
1. He lifted his elbow off the car window jamb, Symmetrical creases trailed his forearm in testament to self-flagellation. Worshipping open air For lungs And empire opportunities For insects. She barricaded her chest with an argyle sweater vest. Lint and dandruff appeared visible in the navy blue squares, But failed in recognition atop the yellowContinue reading “simple enough.”
Leading Backwards
Alienation negates the spy, observing at a distance, scope transfixed at center. A denial to focus on the ramblings relating space to tongue, off the center, specks take form and shapes related to memories begin again. Witness A figurehead holding clay features before her face, shape of a nose before her nose, allay the sameContinue reading “Leading Backwards”
Choose to Win
A duck died, his body floated throughout the pond-water and on occasion collided with shoreline, but always returned back to drifting. When winter turned the water to ice, he was frozen from the neck down. At night, approaching headlights struck his dead eyes and they lit up like stars. During sunny days, his profile functionedContinue reading “Choose to Win”
Natural Franchise
Franchises are a natural pattern found in nature they embrace the structure of the family motif by complimenting double-helix hierarchy via multiplying carbon copies Natural selection situates the dominant features Of these carbon copies And applies them for use as needed A feather for a Nose A nose for an Eyelid An eyelid for aContinue reading “Natural Franchise”
First Snowfall (it won’t happen again)
Human trappings Outweigh organic life. This notion accepts All that is For- Ever Is here now. Basic snow Trips Hands to let go, One-Of-a-Kind Shatters Snow covers those remnants too. Complimenting cycles To induce One-Of-a-Kind Again. Park patrons prepare their minds To reduce virginal white, Putrefying pine Honoring the connection. Observance. Fastened. Per snowfall. PurityContinue reading “First Snowfall (it won’t happen again)”
Opposites are Infinite
1. Opposites are infinite A namesake shared CHURCH ON SUNDAY Relishes the idiosyncrasies Of free speech Indoctrinated By marketing procedures Posits streets named after white people To billboards celebrating Their government names Age takes tomorrow Questions the contradiction Inherit in repetition 2. At the applegrove a man bonked his head on low hanging fruit HeContinue reading “Opposites are Infinite”
Like…REALLY…Drinking Water
Water in the glass Borrows the room’s temperature And contours ice shavings With tepid ripples. Exposed bone Set awry inside their voice Functions like a sewer grate. Holds the shavings At A Tongue Tip Distance, allowing liquid to filter past Inducing tingles To tissue. How’d the shivers come to this? Cosmic metals in the companyContinue reading “Like…REALLY…Drinking Water”
Deconstructing Cottagecore
Cottagecore: Declaration embraced like group-think, suggests nature is an escape, loose clarifications from city folk, insisting that planting tomatoes on rooftops to secure sunlight, void in their windowless chateaus, expresses nature’s follies and exposes green thumb etiquette is ripe with nourishing calluses. But nature is no more an escape than time travel is as aContinue reading “Deconstructing Cottagecore”
