Tuesday, April 30, 2024

#NaPoWriMo 2024 day thirty


1.    it’s third winter
      not so unusual
      despite our failing memory
 
2.     are we a mystery
      or a confusion?
 
3.     let them know the weight of you
      (i miss the weight of you)
 
4.     the days go by
      tickticktock
      and still all this
      desire
 
5.     (shhhh…)
 
6.     do you bear good fruit?
      i want to bear good fruit.
      and multiply.
 
7.     the tongue is a useful thing.
      some more than others.
 
8.     let us make raids on the articulate.
      choose which sounds
      require more attention.
      all the -ings.
 
9.     I HATE WALLS
      I LOVE WELLS
      I HAVE/ WILL
 
10.  what things do you only do at night?
      why or why not?
 
11.  “with my body
      i thee worship”
 
12.  wrangling words
      is dangerous work
 
13.  have i
      told you
      how much
      i love you
      poetry?
 
14.  can poetry
      be a form
      of justice?
      let us demand
      the right use
      of language
 
15.  shhhh…
 
16.  i’m not the same man
      i was before.
      truly. i have witnesses.
 
17.  I estimate I have owned twenty thousand books over my lifetime.
      I probably have four thousand books in my basement right now.
      I burned several thousand books in a bonfire one night in a park.
 
18.  I’d say at least 40.
 
19.  (What’s the story?)
      Because there’s always a reason.
      The pathways grow slowly, then
      wildly or manicured.
      Like gardens. Or myths.
 
20.  See with what
      Large letters
      I have written to you
      With my own hand!
 
21.  (are) all poems are about loss?
 
22.  (are) all poems are an essay on longing?
 
23.  (are) all poems are a seduction?
 
24.  shhhh…
 
25.  it’s a delicate surgery,
      this picking at words:
      finding the fragments;
      binding them up.
      a gift. or a weapon.
 
26.  poetry gives you wings?
      but you get to choose?
      whether to fly?
      and how high?
 
27.  The endings of things
      are very important.
      Because seeds.
 
28.  i made this for you
 
29.  are we a mystery
      or a confusion?
 
30.  maybe the Last Supper
      was the first supper.
 

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