Friday, August 9, 2024

Lament

 I am

what you should call degenerate,

two states between

which I can barely

tell the

difference

and when observed in them

can you?

Sunday, June 9, 2024

お見舞い

時計針

静かな呼吸

一緒歩む

Sunday, February 11, 2024

5:56

暗い朝

静止に静かに

時計が来る

Friday, November 10, 2023

Blue Key

I read the air, 

heavy with mistaken rain,

and felt moss, like wet carpet

from when I always forgot to

return my towel to the rack

next to the shower


The soft ground was cold comfort

to repeatedly bending knees.

Time was slow (comparatively).


My face, the smoothest

it had been since puberty

(from a kind man who might have

perceived my fear, but could not

parse my gratitude)

was shining, remembering 

the you that I believed in


My breath was timed,

one for each two steps,

fast - rubbing my trachea

liberating the taste of

iron in my mouth


that iron, realizing its own disorder

(and loving it) refined itself into a sheet,

an edge, a point.


I gripped a handle.

The truth imagined in my heart,

now realized by a shivering hand.

Monday, November 6, 2023

ジャズ

黒鍵と白鍵

銀色の楽器や

鳴き声で

ポケットの内容

スマホ財布

旅券車の鍵

硬貨の音

Monday, January 30, 2023

Husk

The last whiskers of a late winter ear of corn were withering into a dust when I heard the whistle of your sleeping sigh and thought you might not know me all that well.

But winter comes and winter goes, and corn goes away and grows and to the soil and trees and everything with eyes that can see years will say that brown and dull yellow can only lead to green.