October 2010
4 posts
Things best forgotten
Once upon a time, my history was stolen —
and filed away for good.
I guess I was complicit, telling stories of the
Tiny childlike pains they wanted to fill their story books.
There was too much, too many little solemn hurts,
Too many girlish loves and mirror-kisses, too many
Accidents in car backseats and toilet bowls and euphoric outbursts —
They broke me.
Now all I can remember...
Deliminate
All neurons go,
But soft responses garner no repose.
What’s a stimulus to do? Keep pandering,
Reiterating, tittering, and changing the rules of the game.
Not too long ago, it took
Some twenty small sensations to garner one repsonse. Then ten.
The body learns, the brain teaches, fear.
The stuff of dreams, of nightmares, of casual thoughts —
That’s evolution. That’s change we can believe...
Demagnetized
Facts dominate the landscape today.
Can’t say when it started, but it’s plain
And hard to argue with projections, rock, sky. Capped
With snow and coldness, they are liable
To blow at any minute. Not live, but when is a
volcano ever not?
Obsequious, black and precious, the cold stone
Harbours hidden power: the strongest magnet you
Have ever seen. Pulling your compass, inexplicably,
Away...
Complete
Posting some old poems here as part of a new plan to write something every day. Yes, every day. We’ll see if that’s actually possible.
These hills are filled with mines
And they are majestic, mine, well,
Soon they will be mine and not the bank’s.
And their covering of trees
isn’t just about the breeze, it’s
Also rife with fruit and nut and meat.
So many reservoirs of...