28/31: short on Counseling

you've got to learn to forgive -
to lay it down.

you're not damaged goods.
you've got to be free


you've got to learn to be free.

27/31: short on chemistry

keep your molecules to yourself.

it's unfair to invade my body
with yours.

26/31: Gravesite

i stood on your grave with bare feet one day in october. i didn't know what to expect; what to feel. i've carried pride in my pocket because i've laid no emotional claim to the dirt around your corpse. sounds shitty, i know, but i'm comforted with your molecules i breathe in every other second.

so yeah, anyway - i stood. flesh on cold, wet grass. i didn't feel your heart beat. the rain matted my hair and i walked away after i touched your name, eternally stayed in concrete. i walked away then immediately threw up.

25/31

we saw a wood duck today.

the light rain fell on my head,
in my eyes, on my legs.

we watched him swim in a creek near
an abandoned farm house.

it was a good moment to breathe
and be breathing.

24/31

life is hard.

even the easy parts.

23/31: a subtle ode to ferns: list

I.
crenate, serrate lacerate,
pinnate, pinnatifid, tripinnate,
lance-shaped, oblong.


II.
Brittle bladder, Dickie's Bladder, Soft Tree
Ponga, Gully Tree, Lacy Tree, Ebony and Black Spleenwort,
Maidenhair, Upside-down, Eared Lady, Japanese Painted,
Hardy Hare's Foot, Golden Male, Autumn,
Crested and Narrow Buckler,
Royal, Beech, Ring and Purple Cliff Brake
among a few.


III.
"Nature has a way of arranging plants."

22/31: Man of Faith

well, i wanted to say,
i have faith, too.

in gravity and things like bread.
and sand.

i have faith that every 29 days
(or there abouts)
i'll bleed from down there

and that, eventually, we'll all
be dirt.