4:40 am
tangleweed of precertain thought and feeling
decisive i
turn whole oranges
to juice
#katyamills
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
the dial tones
piano chords
hooked into circuit boards
tapping feet
fears of becoming
obsolete
grounded by the dial
tones
#katyamills
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
curiosity.2
days we looked up
amazed at the sky still in its deep blues
what all that went down in the dirt
here on earth
#katyamills
Monday, 28 March 2022
curiosity.1
violence at the oscars. openly transphobic bestselling authors. i gave myself half the time it took to drink my cup of coffee thinking on it. then back to work.
Sunday, 27 March 2022
hard 2 be gentle
sucking fossil fuels
engines roaring
it's hard to be
gentle with our self
hatred
#katyamills
o.mission
they lost the sea a long time ago. they had to believe in the country as ascendant, powerful again. all they made off that land in the east, farming it, working it, was indispensable to the world. so roll the dice, old school style with tanks and battalions. the one in power decided it for them, the time was now, give your grown men for the military, the only chance was by land. a great many families got crushed up and swallowed. for what? by omission the whole thing was a lie. #katyamills
Friday, 25 March 2022
signs
tiger strides over to kiss his brother
when i begged them not to fight
mom is ghosting and i feel it
letting its leaves hang this plant asks for water
a dove nesting above the door
another sign from god
#katyamills
march 29
we were young
the wilderness was calling
ice broke up on the river
startling the eyes the stars
the skies
#katyamills
kharkiv
a school teacher two months ago
drawing figures on a board
now a colonel in the Ukrainian army
fights side by side with his son
25 miles from the border
telling any Russian soldier within earshot
you better run
#katyamills
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
giveaway
e-copy of my new poetry book
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/343070-up-from-the-downtrodden
Sunday, 20 March 2022
dys.con
the internet was fibre
the optics stunning
our voices crystal in bluetooth synchronicity
the algorithms matched for reconnaissance
like hereditary genes and
why why why
do we not connect
#katyamills
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
we locked eyes in a dream
we locked eyes in a dream we
locked eyes and upon awakening it seemed
this dream was no longer a dream
why would you hunt me?
my love it can kill you
on contact
#katyamills
yosemite image by katya mills c 2022
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
3.15
the fashionable way to work was collectively
and remotely. with minimal identity markers
you take to those who can help solve a problem
if this can be achieved without speaking
even better #katyamills
Monday, 14 March 2022
small pleasures
glass bottle coca-cola
free wifi in laundromats and libraries
youtube tutorials 4 DIY operations
cheap cigs from chinatown
free exchange of labor (aka home depot parking lots)
crossing the state line to gamble on sports
puff powder clouds on blue sky days
puff powder clouds on blue sky days
cold brew coffee
#katyamills
Saturday, 12 March 2022
solidarity
a full tank nearly broke the bank
the price of gas rising almost feels decent like
solidarity with Ukraine
#katyamills
yosemite 3
Chinese Camp
the down side of an ascending grade
10am. we stretched legs made acquaintance of goats and roosters
and storekeep. fed quarters to the candy machine
the candy was pellet feed
note to self: people like animals but not as kind
the cocks were a-doodling we were a-dawdling
raggedy coats made of feather beneath table mountain
the sun lost its way in the clouds
#katyamills
yosemite 2
the rain turned to heavy snow and back to rain
we got so small our problems smaller than we
hid cryin wrapped around a knee tryin
to hold on you gave me a hug and a kiss
the old world turned to vapor before our very eyes
the pen gave a tug on the paper i
wrote a poem with hardly any words
#katyamills
yosemite 1
the microclimates were moody
five thousand feet high in places
long faces
we joined the chorus we
sang the song of
shadows
#katyamills
YAQUI
i am in sacred company
the Apache and you
feather of ink down the forearm. Yaqui tribe
the sky commanded the ground
be still
#katyamills
everything is alive
everything is granular everything
pulsing everything is
alive
who says you cannot communicate
with the dead?
#katyamills
yosemite inn
the parking lot a river and we crossed it
you took our order while gazing lovingly @ your cell phone
we were dripping wet and starving
garlic pepperoni cheese and tomato
you forgot the green peppers
#katyamills
3.11.22
the collie lunged at me
she barely kept it back by the leash
my heartbeat quickened
i ran 5 miles for a personal
best. thank you fear
#katyamills
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
schizoaffective
some kids hear and feel and see stuff
we cannot. when they finally confide in someone
they are often disbelieved they
must be crazy. distracted from their schoolwork
they become anxious and depressed
even suicidal. things will only get better when
even suicidal. things will only get better when
they find someone they can talk to who believes
and maybe introduces them to a psychiatrist
too if there is no other way
#katyamills
Thursday, 3 March 2022
welcome
a dispatcher at the quarry she helped manage traffic
trucks driven by burly men carrying loads of rock and sand
these long and early mornings in the valley
all he wanted from her was a welcome when he said thank you over the CB
he played a game in his mind
not understanding the consequences a woman could face
pronouncing a few friendly words
to each and every one
#katyamills
freedom square
it's easy to wanna give Russia all we got
one would have to be spiritless to not wanna join
the citizens of Ukraine in this fight against
country one hundred times in size
yet the Russian people... they are good people
they should not be subjected to war
either
#katyamills
Up from the Downtrodden
Book synopsis: Divided into quintets, Up from the Downtrodden offers the possibility of hope to anyone feeling hopeless in the world today. The poems within, culled from a period of inspiration and resurgence after more than a decade of hopeless struggling and despair, honor both the darkness and the light. There is a chance, when the two are integrated, to turn what is bitter in life, sweet.
‘heavy metals’
dissociative
staring at the wall again
they turned up the volume
zero calorie heavy
metals to defend against they
demons
Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Up-Downtrodden-Katya-Mills/dp/B09T66LP1G
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