2023
Reading Challenge 2023
·192 words·1 min
I don’t know where I’ll end up, but with each word my mind moves somewhere new.
Final De Año
La causa verdadera
es la sospecha general y borrosa
del enigma del Tiempo.
My Hair'll be Real Long
That makes one year and two days it’s been on my mind. What if you died before me.
What if we could forgive before, before. I know that this life, it happens now.
Nothing Better
I feel I must interject here. You’re getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself. With these revisions and gaps in history. So let me help you remember.
Summer Leaves, Fall Flowers - El Verano Muere, El Otoño Florece
The last winds of summer whirlpool their last breath. The first leaves of fall toast in the coolness of a coming while.
You Were Watching From the Sand
·2422 words·12 mins
I forgot that laughing could be easy, like breathing, like blinking, like being before that fateful day.
Love by Candlelight
Sometimes when I’m half awake and half asleep, or when I hear a certain sound, or
when I smell a certain smell, or when I say a certain phrase, I remember what
it’s like to be in love.
The Body Keeps the Score
·7365 words·35 mins
The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
Stellar Moose
Where is it that you’re going my stellar pelted moose?
Where is it that your lunar hooves go when they need to roost?
The Crows - Les Corbeaux
The moon is full! The moon is full! The moon is full!
The moon is full! And it’s filled with clouds of crows.
Calamitous Traverse
Lost with no guide, In tumultuous tide.
Have I been here before? In a storm’s whirling core?