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The tides here are too rough. I sink here, happy only when I hoard my little blue sleeping pills, stash the blades of my razor. I accumulate a drawer of drop-out devices, so by December I can escape to a Merry Christmas.
All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it.
Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.
I see my future
now not as something
intangible like a dream,
but like a boat
meeting land
after time spent at sea,
a destination I will reach.
She breaks. She's sick. Throw a rope, a net. She falls like a shot-up plane. Help her find the landing strip, Her feet are wet - She'll learn, she'll train. She walks a rope on fire, Look Ma, no hands.
If I were a man
I might not wear the cloak
of anonymity.
Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.
Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.
I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored
to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly
soars above almost everyone.
We built a world of words
and yet none satisfy now.
It may be safe to walk,
but where do you go
when all directions wear
the same black ashen despair?
Why uproot
a perfectly healthy
white blazing star
from the soil
to allow room
for a roadside weed?
