Tag: river
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Volcano
I wish I didn’t have to know that inside every adult there is a spirit-sized wound that spews like a child’s volcano project creeping into the hallway, like the first zit on my nose that I popped in the mirror and made squirt across the bathroom, because I thought if I could make what was […]
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Snow
The hardest thing I’ve ever had to struggle with is trying to reconcile having a self that can’t be found, no matter how clear I can read and understand it. Something as simple as sitting in a chair, for example, becomes very complex in this light, and usually, I end up releasing whatever line of […]
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Trout
When I think I want to be a kind of soul released from my body of suffering into the air between airs, one who’s floating over a great river beyond Time’s so-called beginnings and endings, always in a constant state of play, curiosity, and letting go within a morning mist that’s hiding trout that rise […]
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Water
It’s true I’ve already become heavy with what I want. But sometimes I imagine turning into the water I mostly am, as I roll through life like the gofer in Caddyshack. Other times I imagine I’m Jonathan Livingston Seagull, surprised that I have a wave where my brain should be, and I’m just riding it […]
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Tsunami
Too much of my life I’ve spent complaining to the police in my head about how my past should have been this or that, it’s a wonder my mind hasn’t fallen off its hinge and started quacking. I realized this tonight while I was complaining to my therapist about how I thought poetry should be […]
the real subject is always you 