#NaHaiWriMo - curtains/ extra

you grow a skin
to keep out the light
that draws around you

*

always one more thing
that leads to one more thing
leading to one less thing

#NaHaiWriMo - plaster

under my hands
the porcelain of your body
the smoothness of your skin

#NaHaiWriMo- spill/ favourite

in the half-light
we watch where we step
we need nimbler feet

*

you once told me
i’m your “favourite”
favourite what?

#NaHsiWriMo - son

so much silence
waiting for my father’s blessing
his right hand

#NaHaiWriMo - capitalism

what things have value?
what makes the world go round?
love? or money. 

#NaHaiWriMo - crowd

please come closer
everything presses in
the surprise of it

#NaHaiWriMo - river

late at night 
it keeps moving
a body of living water

#NaHaiWriMo - mythical

against better judgement
the stories of my youth 
loom large

#NaHaiWriMo - shadow

skittering across
the field of vision
like ants

#NaHaiWriMo - fake

you caught me
looking at flowers
instead of birds 

#NaHaiWriMo - sculpture/ cardboard

we take up all this

space

without thinking

*

life is simply

a matter of how

to move things

#NaHaiWriMo - play

even this close

there is always a little space

full of implications

#NaHaiWriMo - dream

first the promise
then the slow grind
deep breathing

#NaHaiWriMo - wolf

laying beside each other
we hear the song
and join

#NaHaiWriMo / remember

sliding through 
the gaps
so much longing

#NaHaiWriMo - tangle/ toxic

the wind blows this way
and the wind blows
that way

*

just one word

you carry it around
like luggage

#NaHaiWriMo - wrong-way

of regrets
there were always too many
words

#NaHaiWriMo - ladder

and there i was
leaning and hoping 
not to fall

#NaHaiWrimo / popcorn

in the darkness
we reach into the container
at the same time

#NaHaiWriMo - treasure

help me remember
all the beautiful things
i’ve forgotten 

#NaHaiWriMo - encounter

perhaps this
is the dance
but i’m too tired

#NaHaiWriMo - warmth

hold me here
as the snow falls
covers the trees

#NaHaiWriMo - escape

we turn inward
to protect ourselves
count offences

#NaHaiWriMo - postcard

all those places
we always promised
we would visit 

#NaHaiWriMo - bubble

those were
all the words
breaking through the surface.