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Perpetuating stillness that perpetuates
Even when its evidences dissipate
An undercurrent of stillness
That dismantles movement […]

Not knowing whether the expanse trepidatiously expands,
Or whether the harbor’s arousal
Seeks to mitigate some proverbial acquiescence—[…]

Fireworks and bridges
Solo cups of rosé
Smiles of hope with dear friends
The passing of the day […]

Life is lived in fragments
broken up in days,
Sewn together fragments
in a million different ways […]

Lightening the burden
Of the dripping pessimism
Showing colors I once
Ascribed to […]

Blowing out candles every year,
Blowing them out like they mean nothing,

”Tomorrow won't exist
If I don't acknowledge […]

A little mouse finds its way around cardboard boxes
Happening to find itself near the lunch room
Where there is a mouse's feast left out every night;
Just crumbs and fragments to us […]

Orange potato buzzed ham
The vasectomy of oncology
Geriatric soft-serve
Through temples made of forks […]

What did sister-forest
with the long, ivy hair
falling dusk everywhere
say upon the meadow […]