Similar to the first cold day of the year, when you grab a coat you haven't worn in a while and put your hands in the pockets, and find a piece of a receipt, a used tissue, a caramel wrapper, and a band-aid, also used. And not recognize who these fragments belong to.
I thought self as something innate, an enduring thread for the most part. Though it is more fragile, self can fragment, dissipate. It is difficult when memory becomes contested or one cannot reason with their doing.
At loose ends, such fragments became tangible comforts. Material had memory, in how a tissue soaked and how an envelope scuffed. It rendered progression.
I thought self as something innate, an enduring thread for the most part. Though it is more fragile, self can fragment, dissipate. It is difficult when memory becomes contested or one cannot reason with their doing.
At loose ends, such fragments became tangible comforts. Material had memory, in how a tissue soaked and how an envelope scuffed. It rendered progression.
still grassy field – accelerates
bicycle intrude35 miles per hour
56 kilometers per hour
glass cups atop of fridge
landscape, crease
newsprint
burst dulled sense, lukewarm ensue
knife with the blue handle
shudder
bush-like florets bundled
quietly dried while they await
deployed into forest
paper tape with serrated end
cardboard bend, economical
first-aid’s deceivingly mere steps
clean – cover – secure
this bread was a loaf but now’s a brick
I assumed fatigue
bicycle intrude
56 kilometers per hour
glass cups atop of fridge
landscape, crease
newsprint
burst dulled sense, lukewarm ensue
knife with the blue handle
shudder
bush-like florets bundled
quietly dried while they await
deployed into forest
paper tape with serrated end
cardboard bend, economical
first-aid’s deceivingly mere steps
clean – cover – secure
this bread was a loaf but now’s a brick
I assumed fatigue