Waiting on My Bookshelf...

Currently reading or about to read:

• Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon (one of the very first bloggers I ever followed!)
• Dance for Two by Alan Lightman
• Whiskey Island (a literary journal published by Cleveland State University) Issue 62
• If You're Lucky Is a Theory of Mine by Matt Mauch
• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
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The Details

The Details

Detailing means to clean between
the details Degunked and dusted

The soft gesture of the paleontologist as
she encourages away the dirt
with her paintbrush and chisel

Oof Just think of the ways a kiss
can mark

Magenta stain of lipstick on a cheek
Bruisey hickey blooming up
on a neck

mere millimeters away from some
never-will-be-touched skeleton

We express our earthliness by
pressing up
against damage’s caress

Rich Interior Life

Rich Interior Life

In the life of the book
a face is the sun

a finger is light
and the text stirs

in its flowerbed

For a book one day
is measured in duration
of being looked at

A book can live one day
and slumber for many years
before the next day

Contained within the book there is a pool
of all that will happen

but it can wait

Might Give

Might Give

You have worn the coat of longing
and now you won’t be rid of it

You can be both pipsqueak and bully
who holds the pipsqueak away with a palm
against the head
goading, Hit me why don’t you

There is a doggie door
that will not open
but it feels like it just might give

If you beg
maybe everything will keep wearing their
mask of beauty

The Magnolia Speaks!

I love this sign. This poem is a true story. (Most poems are true stories, aren't they?)

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! What will you be enjoying? I'll be celebrating at the wedding of my beautiful sister, Mara (and her amazing husband-to-be, Brandon).