Grasp

memories
like
   craft glue

hold only
past
   so many tears

no resistance
   to the wet

as they peal off
back in the corners
   and all over

a new
dispassionate yet
irrational state
swells

colder
even here
   in June

skin coarser
and untouched

routine
unrelenting
and even less rewarding

go long enough
and everything will unravel
even my bones

my love
and the dust on my heart

memories
are just that
   a reminder

do you remember too?

are you just tired?

once powerful
now
   like I

everything one does
so many days now
just a drop in a great river
   that runs away

never adding up
to what I saw go in

memories
are just that
   a reminder

I want the rest
the love
the belonging
you

The earth
[that] I affect
in a grain at a time

but by exponential
reproduction
my kind
has the numbers
to turn molehills
into mountains

then fill them with goods
that 'll glow hair

and finish with a drink
from the water down stream

The earth
[that] I affect
in a ton at a time
a tooth
in the gears
one of many
and many

a cloud is forming
between me
and my sun

yet it won't even bring me rain
to wash in

At Winter's End

In the mud
I leave you

I hope
that you find your shell
a burden

at just
the right time

and that you
set out
to find
new roots

new meanings
new colors

new abundance

for now I leave
you

here
in the mud