Tuesday 15 October 2024

loose tooth



working the orchard
they were pretty dehydrated 
one of the apples 
pulled off the branch 
they sunk their teeth in 
went in for another
bite they saw blood 
felt around the mouth 
the drunken fight 
last night 
a tooth was 
loose

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Friday 11 October 2024

time blind

The sun set on a quiet winter day and they fell off into a faraway cavernous thought space with music playing off a box radio plugged in and hung up over the sink with bungees so they could access it from the bed, too heavy to move. Time got lost in their blindness of it.

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Thursday 10 October 2024

sugar



she gave them #sugar
honestly
enough to sweeten the deal
not poison it

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Monday 7 October 2024

twilight



clouds were roaming
we were still
in the gloaming there settled
a chill


a wolf was circling
with three coyotes
coming in
for the kill

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Thursday 3 October 2024

tea



black tea 
and me 
always agreed 
she declared 
we are more like green 
respect 
and keep a fair 
distance

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tsundoku

the difficulty was not with tsundoku so much as it was with society and the tendency they had to work and work and work the plentiful jobs none of which supplied the proper income to live on the blade

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Tuesday 1 October 2024

OCT1

they acquired the skin of a melon ... layers upon layers of bruised rejection ... exterior to a sweetness saved for the one true love they had yet to lay eyes on

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