Left in the Snow

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.Aristotle If you want to leave...Aka baby it's cold outside I'd hate to be the one to saywhere only one can have their wayand be the one to make you stayplease go away, please go away I left at the …

Boxes & Bones

Couplet: life story We compose as the melody rocksEach life reciting a ballad to the box Abbreviated Haiku: sleep box ringing earskiss of the red glovesleep the sleep Hay(na)ku: UFCourage wegot gameand death wishes Naani: checked & boned I banged my hubrisAgainst my humerusNow I can't stop laughingAbout my ambitions Quatrain: hard times fall on …

Survival through Perception

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus If every leaf is a flowerI'm becoming a florist Life through the eyes of changeIs constantly beautiful Lune:I will survive Amid the decayI was bornIt can not touch me A study in the Journal of Aging Research found that babies born during …

Death Comes and Goes and Stays

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go.”Unknown Can you help me?[Screams] oh my god!I know. I've been carrying her around a while.She's d-d-dead.Of course. But I can't put her down, I don't think she's the right colour yet. I was accosted by a birch treeThat …

City in the Sky

Senryü:are you not entertained? high above the cloudsneed inflight entertainmentlook out the window A nightSeatedIn limboTouching heavenAnd by and byArrive aliveFlyingRed eyed What the Flying F#ck: Police arrested a woman and a daughter when they tried to smuggle the woman’s dead husband in a wheelchair onto a plane. They had covered his eyes with sunglasses …