Summer 2021 Poems

Respite from Sleep

Drove down roads and wound up bends
Landed in the woods among turtle friends

Felt like reminiscing bout the times to be
When the plastic round my coffee slumbered far from the sea

Further to the trailhead of the tip of Internet’s peak
That’s just about the bandwidth where I’m free to no longer speak

My eyes are heavy set on feeling magic when they’re closed
But open for the season is the wildest small white rose

It’s real when we mouth it and it’s there at the edge of our feet
It’s awoken by what’s inside
The respite from sleep

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And in a flash she felt her thighs collide. Brown eyes wide, new kicks just her size

Out and ready to seize what’s good. Not a care for tip-toeing, no reason she should

On point, in check, making paper, doing favors. The power is boundless when you remember to savor

Don’t thank her. It’s the universe that’s playing

Never played out, that sound of creation. Sounds like something is shakin