@coastalpoet.bsky.social
(For championing and curating the collaborative poetry project
Poetry of Witness)
@aspenbrave.bsky.social
(Compiling the #BraveWrites prompt)
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I gather my hands
in #solitude
at the butchers block
to count tea rings
their spiral madness
buried in pine &
everything unspools
as I wait, so long
for you to come
straight & cold
as a drone flies
for all of us
to come home, soon
#vss365
#poetrysky
#writingprompt
#bravewrites
a gull flies at my window
the boney #silhouette of ancestors carved in its cruel beak
a pillage of feathers, to break the peace of a morning
but as the sea was made
to shatter at the boundary
of the earth so I
close the curtains
on the faces of my dead
#vss365
#bravewrites
#writingprompt
A rose bloomed out the back of your head. Boronia sweetened your cradle.
We lay calla lillies gathered by the roadside. You shot that taipan with the same gun.
You wore poppies to communion. I ate the body they offered and wished it was yours.
#vss365
#bravewrites
Throw me at the wall
& I’ll pierce nothing at all
like a black star resigned to thoughts of revelation
I abhor the physical &
will siphon your oceans
until your skerry bones
form mountains
until the sound of my voice can be heard
around the world
#vss365
#bravewrites
#16days
You buy postcards
paper denominators
selling a sunset
don’t look right at it
lest you go blind
before he leaves
#vss365
#cherita
#bravewrites
we play out a eulogy
by British Parliament rules
blazing room to room
caged by walls in luteal
in one I throw a clock radio at your head
in another
it shatters, a #pinnacle of excess & show tunes
embedded in the flesh
of my fruiting days
#vss365
#bravewrites
hollow, and grateful
to have a #dud mind that wrecks on obvious reefs
to be adrift, on a sea of lesser patents
& still stain the water
dip your fingers in me
scissor
& admire the emptiness
& know
that the ink washes out
that the vastness you feel
is an echo
#vss365 #bravewrites #allbravenow
we are the stone
that aches in diversion
of a clear stream
our bodies #pervasive
rising
in rich peaks, we crumble
to possibilities
are swept, to the mouths
of a thousand tiny birds
or fall, back to where we started
we are the ocean
that waits to reclaim
all things
#vss365 #bravewrites
