Aug. 23, midnight

to grow up

to turn a wife poor
                                                            ".thing" would be the normal phrase, but                                                             watching, watching the turning
believe cloth weave
                                                            an act of faith - "idle hands are the devil's                                                             tools"? or a calmness in associating with the                                                             greater Fates?
                                                            How do I get this Zen?
never one hundred gold coins
                                                            and the upturned heart with the
                                                             woven calluses
like he's never seen before
                                                            deny the feelings of wanting
a counter for a bird, a promise
                                                            something to rest them on while seeing if
                                                             they fly
to keep, to protect, together
                                                            as in the siblings fostered out who now only                                                             have each other
the person you're talking to
                                                            makes all the difference if they recur in a
                                                            life
to mistake
he won't come twice
                                                            forget the feeling of fatalism
I often think about what that person would think if I said that
                                                            how do we dance ourselves not in cut-to-
                                                            ribbons
meaning + reading
                                                            how to climb beyond interpreting myself
                                                             through others' eyes