A little girl helps her little brother open birthday presents
Laughing at today’s word
Of all words: #Return
Turn. Stop. Turn again.
Go back. Come back. Give back. Pass back
to an earlier possessor
Shove these requests where the sun don’t shine
Turn again only to check
Possess no possessor
Pause periodically if you’re able
Don’t lose sight of me
#vss365
18 pairs of men’s shoes in three rows
I need the #noise I hate the noise
It crowds you out I hate you out
I hate the noise you hated it too
It brings you back I need you back
I hate it quiet I hate it loud
I can’t do it you can do anything
I need your silence I need your noise
#vss365
golden you were
#sempiternal you are
were you always (the latter)?
am i now (the former)?
#vss365
you’re #mercury now
but with atmosphere
like your aura, blue and deft
even defter than what you left
hallucinations
intimations
palindromes on the short drive home—
errors, maybe, but I’m certain:
I deny you
at my peril
#vss365
This room looks like a #cyclone hit it
Fair enough, but everything’s dry
And it doesn’t look like Spiral Jetty
or cinnamon buns all strewn about
And things do not appear to be spinning
with winds whipping
and lights dimming
At least not yet, but yes—
in time
#vss365
we should be washing the car
talking about this mess
outside the car
beyond our little yard
past the woods that dead end at the top of our street
the #thoroughfare connecting us
open forever
#vss365
You can’t use an #umbrella to shield you from an asteroid
You can’t nail a custard pie to the wall
But you can eat a custard pie underneath of an umbrella
Back pinned against the wall
Ball of rock inside your hand
Poised to toss the blasted pie
Or the rock
As you see fit
#vss365
A photo of the sky at dusk. The crescent moon and Venus hang high above silhouetted houses and trees below.
If I conjure skies of blinding confetti
If I point to Venus and the waxing crescent
If I make the crescents or at least lend a hand
If I hurl you into the neighboring dimension
If I bring you back and berate you for leaving
If I #rocket, rocket, rocket
Could you rocket faster, faster?
#vss365
Man squatting on a fallen tree to photograph a marmot among Sequoias in California
View of Lake Tahoe from Nevada
Just imagine me trying to go on, you said
As pure, as untroubled as Lake Tahoe
In a Lake Tahoe fleece from 2015
In a manner that could only mean you’ve already gone
Photo of a salt-stained road running through the trees of the Pine Barrens in winter. The sky is blue, the ground is snowy.
Photo of a winter sunset behind trees set back in a snowy field
Photo of a salt-stained road flanked by snowy fields and leafless trees. The blue sky is dotted with patchy clouds
parade of planets
looking up into the depths
earth days you’d have loved
