you have to work for your calm,
like climbing a mountain:
straining muscles at first,
hands calloused;
then snow-heavy peace,
and miles upon miles
of horizon.
Archive for January, 2009
snow-heavy peace
January 27, 2009balance
January 19, 2009
you will find it when you cease to search for it:
the strength to stand, despite the gravity
of this slow and crumbling life.
entangled / untangled
January 12, 2009as you trudge along, be warned:
these days become thick as barbwire,
fraught with tiny lacerations.
still, be strong.
toughen your skin,
only as much as it must be
to salvage that precious blood
and keep your heart warm.
~ • ~
despite the equation fumbling towards balance,
variables of ruby light and plush couches
and mild poison softening the formula,
still, he could not bend his mind
to reconcile
x (what she wanted) with
y (what he wanted to give).
watchmaker
January 7, 2009the watchmaker’s mind, like
his gold and leather progeny,
is a cascade of gears,
clicking and grinding and chiming
through the night,
making him restless,
his fingers twitching like
big and little hands,
eyes darting like
pendulums,
waiting for daylight
to peak through the
curtains. waiting, waiting,
so he can tinker
once again.
king of
January 5, 2009
boys will never stop wanting castles,
because pouring molten iron
on hordes of marauders
will never stop being cool.
outside everything
January 3, 2009
they ask, why this.
i say, it’s a symbol.
for what, they ask.
i don’t know, i say.
for me, i guess:
outside everything;
he who takes the serious unseriously (and
vice versa);
a helix of tragedy and comedy.
the oddity in an otherwise uniform
deck.
i don’t get it, they say.
yeah. me neither.
for everything a season III
January 2, 2009
i want a hand to hold, yes,
but only a hand that wants to share
the graphite stains.
