Force of Love

“If the sky falls, they shall have clouds for supper.”

- Charles Simic

“I like it when anything happens.”

- Matty Matheson

“My mother used to tell me, when I was a toddler, that there was a reserved parking space at the hospital for me.

Apparently, I got into situations.”

- June Restivo (Ma)

Icebreaker Pregame the party with death.

Heaven with wet lips.

Do you dare or do you truth?

Why excuse?

It's only me and you

Get The problem is I hear you like a safe box, or a career your father chalks up.

You love like a plan.

Forgive me for that.

But would you rather I say stick with it? Until it makes sense?

Do the best with what you can and can't? I'm not an HR department.

I'm asking for grace in admission.

Say alone’s the easy out you’re wrestling.

What you don't know you want and I'll be fine.

I sleep on a bedrock that keeps most

people up at night. I don't know if there's love or only cycles of hurting and holding until someone stops wanting the second part.

Here left with questions.

The kind that ache before answered.

Did I know you?

Is there nothing left to do?

We're complete as strangers.

And I can't call you without reason.

Boy A taste informs the tongue.

The tongue informs the mouth of it’s next bite.

That’s an era.

I didn't know love.

Just it’s rubric.

It was medically cold.

You could feel the veins constricting.

He lays on his stomach, chewing sloshes in his head.

I’m laying on my stomach describing hearing.

Each moment shells the next until an arrow called grace hits the borderless target like a blow dart through balloons inflated inside of balloons. An exoskeleton rains briefly like confetti. We reach for each other.

Home Alone I worry about missing something, or is it the reverse?

I scramble to get paper.

I like the rush.

Sometimes I worry what I write in that state gets imbued with that franticness.

Though I think an abundance of spirit usually overpowers that anxiety.

I still worry it may show subtly or reveal in the editing process.

I think I’m at my best when I’m most unconcerned.

Today I had the whole apartment to myself.

I went on a long jog.

Stopped and wrote for a while.

Jogged again.

Stopped and wrote and came back to the absent home.

I spent the rest of the daylight writing.

I am proud of the work.

I don’t want to live alone.

My roommates make my life special.

But I need days like this every once in awhile without the strangeness of pleasant.

All Love A star shooting up the web silk of its choosing.

A statue of three movements: A look, a pause, a stare.

If you ever want to know, you know where

Universal Togetherness A child combs the beach screaming. He carries a tucked rug under his arm and a long poking stick in the other. He's causing a scene that reminds everyone of something that makes them smile. He passes where we sit, with our mild music and sensible treats. He's yelling at a lump we've been debating all day. His sister shrieks, “I don't know, take it.” A man in a wetsuit says, “Little man, I think that's a dead seal.”

The boy says, “I thought it was wood.”

Lease No sun without burning.

Heartbreaking.

I smell you.

You smell me.

It’s pretty gross.

Home’s close.

The road was a code.

Green grew in the holes.

I see it on your face.

I think you know

Sitting Around A Fire Not to go all blisscipline but last night, I heard love talk. It said what does is meant. I turned the knife and cut a lime poorly for a stranger.

She laughed. I remembered when a heart speaks, a door listens, and all I want is you gunning for uncomplicated.

Ask a question.

Let an answer blue like a map.

No catch.

Let's get on.

My dog’s in the yard, I blow a fly off my arm, what’s your love?

Tonight I’m outside the city.

Stars glow like a friend and corral the night like a big net.

We breathe, begin, and end staring at that ceiling, wondering what that silence is revealing

Made between 5/20/21 - 5/24/21 Thanks for reading