Tagged: absence
should you come across
should you come across
this message which i intend
to never send, wait
for me for as long as there is
a season still of waiting
.
20260328:0302
y
we slip in and out
we slip in and out
of one another’s otherwise
tightly tucked memories
for perhaps more than five, fewer
than ten pomegranate seeds
.
20260328:0219
y
another year, one
another year, one
more birthday full of only
your memories – at
the piano, playing barber,
trying not to disappoint you
.
20260211:2024
y
hope is a practice,
hope is a practice,
often found in the darkness
of uncertainty
.
20260130:2115
y
the stillness after
the stillness after
gathering contains equal
parts a small joy and
a trace melancholy, we keep
busy till the fog dissipates
.
20251226:1753
y
for every path that
for every path that
holds no memories, remember
the love that held you
.
20251031:1257
y
seduction comes in
seduction comes in
semblances – me, backed into a
corner, not wanting
to let you go, walking away,
not looking back till you called
.
20251017:0814
y
yes, i permit your
yes, i permit your
forgetting to pain me, fold
myself here and here
to remember the creases,
study the corners that hurt
.
20250925:2321
y
maybe an armful
maybe an armful
of orchids, sturdy and fragile,
will bring us solace
.
20250717:2053
y
perhaps we are here
perhaps we are here
to help hold one another’s
grief as much as joy –
the ritual of naming whom
and how we love transcends us
.
20250426:0009
y
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