7 Mondays Volume 27Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''"Filling Up"''
[[Julia Palmer]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/9d1c4514-b2ce-4d95-99fd-bd587fb2898e/filling+up.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''. . . And the tree. . . And then. . .''
[[Anonymous]]
The tree wraps its hard, immense branches, branches that are hard like stone and thick as small logs, over your shoulders and embraces you in a millennium hug, a slow endeavor. The tree is cold and hard. Much harder than you ever imagined. Even though you know it is solid you still think of it as a tree. As something you can get to know. And when you feel how solid it is, it is as though it was so much more solid than you could ever have imagined. And it embraces you back now, ever so stiff, ever so solid. And where does it get thin and green and lithe? Flexible and soft and new? And between -- where it is hard and rough but it gives and gives. Where is this? And when does it start? But here it is stiff. So much more stiff than you could ever imagine.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''7 Takis''
[[Anonymous]]
Enigmatic superbliss
Nirvanic Chaos
Curiosity on the brink
The fair weathered plane of existence
Philosophies for think
Tumultuous pears of subsistence
Nothing means anything
How can something mean nothing?
Ink
Drawn from its cavern
An owl
Sitting heavy on its perch
Hopeful wanderer
Find your wayBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''A man says,''
[[Anonymous]]
I won’t witness this
Or you
I will
Grab this and you
With a grubby hand
Into a dusty pocket
Where
You will
Crumble down creased
When
I reach in for some change
I will find you sleeping
With the tips of my fingers
And pull you out, and toss
YouBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''A note from the Knails''
[[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
Dear old Dorothy Knail
Died last weekend
Her final words:
Aaaugh, mmfffghhrrhgghhcchkhhhh. Hhhhhg.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''A poem''
[[Sobechi Cornella Madueke-Aniemeka]]
I believed all deserved love’s tender embrace,
Until your presence unveiled love’s bitter face.
I’d choose solitude across lives anew,
Over tainted affection offered by you.
You silenced my voice, not in understanding’s light,
But to impose your will, erasing my right.
Where once my soul found solace and grace,
Now your words intrude, usurping that space.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''A strong gust of wind''
[[Anonymous]]
And then the caterpillar
<div style="text-indent: 11em;">blew in
<div style="text-indent: 15em;">from down
<div style="text-indent: 20em;">the porch,
<div style="text-indent: 6em;">frozen
in what one can only imagine to be fright from her recent and unexpected air ride.
<div style="text-indent: 20em;">“That’s odd”
Spoke the caterpillar.
<div style="text-indent: 15em;">“I think my life is over”
At that,           human,
drunk and lighting dry grass
alone on the steps
guffawed. For he knows the truth of the matter,
as he saw it happen,
sitting large
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">and unbothered
<div style="text-indent: 4em;">and all knowing
unfortunately,
his glee was cut
<div style="text-indent: 7em;">short when a gust of wind
<div style="text-indent: 20em;">blew him
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<div style="text-indent: 2em;">“On second thought”
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<div style="text-indent: 2em;">“It may have just been a bit of wind”</div>Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)''
[[Ranz Jaren Tayo Bontogon]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/979a455b-9c33-4193-8ce0-4717192b163e/Ang_Aking_Pamilya_Ranz_01_EDITED_Ranz+Bontogon.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Atlas of the Fields''
[[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/dd3bba97-d727-441d-9786-4fc1666f7626/Atlas+%28of+the+fields%29.JPG?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Bathtub''
[[Eric Coates (3r1c C0at3s)]]
Bathtub hug
Blot me out
Arches, toes
Quiver, bows
Flushed in sigh
Knees and thigh
I am moat
Heart in throat
I’m doing what I can to remain calm
Just look into my eyes
Baby give me almsBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Beach Poem''
[[Maika Branch]]
This summer I stood on the beach
to Minister’s Island
eddies of saltwater over my toes
on stones
and I think now
of my stomach lining replacing itself
every seven years.
I think of people I’ve touched,
since then
of names I’ve learned,
muscle mass I’ve lost
and gained
and lost again.
Hair I’ve cut,
shirts I’ve bought.
How long
until the girl on the beach is goneBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Candlelight''
[[Garret Ikinci]]
A candle in a glass in the dark, its heat residual, the light bent, reflecting like blinking lashes. To
Be carried in the dark, to ward it off, though its coldness in your hands mutters in doubt,
The power of the candle cool in your hands.
This is your candle, it is your light, its warmth is a memory, not a lie, and its light is bright
Though corrupted and kept.
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">We make do with what light we can carry. </div>
Trust in the power of fire, though its heat can only caress, not embrace you:
Yours is to embrace, your duty and pleasure and burden
To embrace those lost in the dark like teeth chattering still in a dead mouth
To embrace those deep in the sun who have lost the touch, lost the love,
Whose flesh is burnt out,
Who glow yet feel their shadows pooling at their feet,
A cigarette glowing towards destruction
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">Just like you. </div>Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Chicken''
[[Gabriel Theriault]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/bdc45d09-d071-4ab2-b303-6a7a1f1749a2/Chicken.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Cordoba''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
What a funny day
to know oneself and without provocation
to jump headfirst off cemented roofs
in the leaves of unknown treetops.
The winds are cold and yet
this mysterious city, with arms wide open
stashes heat within its walkwaysBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Dear Mr. Irving''
[[Anonymous]]
''Verse 1''
Well the forestry industry
Took a forest full of trees
And the trees said Mr. Irving
We’re here to help you breathe
But not just that
We’ll cleanse your air of pollution
And if you harvest our organs
Your soil will loosen
Your mountains will sink
Your ground will erode
The earth will come by
To swallow up what you borrowed
So you best get to steppin’
Before I timber on you
And you get fancy mud
On those unfancy shoes
''Chorus''
Because a tree makes a sound
If it falls in the forest
And if a forest falls down
Their sounds make a chorus
And if the chorus can catch
On the whistling wind
Perhaps we could realize
The trouble we’re in
''Verse 2''
So Mr. Irving
You got somethin’ to say?
Well say it don’t spray it
Like you do with Glyphosate
You murder the maples
To plant fir, spruce and pine
Your only concern
Is that your pockets are lined
You don’t give a care
That little critters are dyin’
Who feeds your mill
If you kill the supplier
The Acadian forests
Are all we got left
A natural symbol
Of life over death
''Chorus''
Because a tree makes a sound
If it falls in the forest
And if a forest falls down
Then their sounds make a chorus
And if the chorus can catch
On the whistling wind
Maybe we’d realize
The trouble we’re in
''Verse 3''
Well Mr. Irving
You can’t fire me
I’m a tree, I am free
To do whatever I please
You can chop me down
But on my way to the ground
I will bellow out my sound
To the people all around
To say what you’re doin’
Is reflection’ on them
If humans and trees
Cannot become friends
It’s a horror to think
But I cannot pretend
People gasping for breath
In a sad bitter end
''Chorus (Outro)''
Cause I’m a tree makin’ sound
As I fall in the forest
The forest fell down
And their sound made a chorus
Could you please put the chorus
To the whistling wind
And contemplate
The trouble we’re in
Cause I’m a tree makin’ sound
As I fall in the forestBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Electric''
[[Jaden Ward]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/39fc8479-f2ec-400a-9288-5e8015e465fc/We+Take+Pride+In+Our+Work.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Fall Semester''
[[Kathleen Fox]]
Do not take it the wrong way
when I say
that I loved
playing house with you
in somebody else’s home.
Call it illusion,
experiment,
call it a study period.
A class in session,
and we were autumnal,
a myth dying.
Us with our books,
our limbs intertwined,
like two deciduous tree roots
reuniting
and wrapping into
instant nostalgia.
So here: take this hall pass.
Come meet me in their library,
where we can read
enemy erotica
and practice the intimacy
of an argument.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Fallen Leaves''
[[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/7c06e020-e455-44ab-b1ac-a4df35d3270e/cycle.JPG?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Ghosts''
[[Tedi Buffett]]
As a kid, I ran up those stairs as fast as I could. The black and white photos in the basement contained people unknown to me. Their merciless white faces stared at my back, eyes following my trail. I felt them hover; I knew they were near. Faster.
I had to run faster.
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">Skip a step if I had to. </div>
Nobody told me whose faces they were until I was much older.
My grandparents, their parents, uncle Ted. Photo, after photo, after photo. My father was the one to put them on display. Rows of delicate pewter frames lined the mantle. Ornate spirals curled over the corners.
They haunted him much more than they did me. I would later learn these people never loved my father. Beatings and bruisings and coal at Christmas. My father’s choices were determined by photos. Stills and snapshots of smiles never given. Reminding him of his failures. The bastard child, the divorces, and god forbid the sensitivity. Reminding him to succeed. The money, the house, the car. The cigarettes, the stress, the heart attack.
Eyes turned from blue to hazel and still the pictures stayed. One daughter an adult and two still children. Two who love, one who couldn’t. The pictures had whispered to her, and she listened. And still, he gave her everything. Or what would be everything to her. The money, the job, the name. Even after he was gone.
Their eyes followed him his whole life. No matter how many times he’d hiked up those stairs, he’d always walk back down.
Now he is one of those photos, with eyes following me around.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:''
[[Alex Couch]]
Warm, heady nutmeg, pried ripe from shamed red;
vanilla and coconut, to smooth a rough edge;
salt, and bay leaf, what bitter homily;
sticky sweet milk, slow with apology.
Livening hands, rich as mahogany,
set to work, grind down the hominy.
With mortar and pestle, rhythm-bound wrists
nestle rock in its vessel, with quickening twists
wind the clock up, time grinds the grain down,
cock pipes up, hark! Sun will soon be-come round,
on the horizon, gold begins to crown,
sprung from the mortar whose blessings abound.
Stone-hewn meal, cut of stark yellow gem;
the sun, the star, and flesh of Bethlehem.
Into the dutchie, to get nice and hot,
where shadows are cast, and iron is wrought.
Sweet made bitter, is waste for naught,
bitter must sweet, as a melting pot ought.
Into the dutchie, to get hot and nice,
altars of sugar, and altars of spice
Mother knew bread and butter tastes better
if two can tear and taste it together.
Bellies are warmer when sharing a slice,
the happiest fire burns sacrifice.
Simmer and stir and stir and simmer,
//Kyrie eleison//, save this poor sinner, with porridge for breakfast, for lunch, and for dinner.
I took communion, a bit in my mouth.
I was christened a virgin, chaste beyond doubt.
With new snowy teeth,
I followed the reigns,
(tongue chasing salt, and metal, and cane)
and tore flesh from bones of
men, swallowed the blood
of men, I know not
The Lord above me,
nor which of Us did the eating,
except I could look at my teeth,
which i hope are stained yellow
from the blood and the marrow
of a jolly good fellow.
I knew so surely,
mother died today
or maybe yesterday
some arthropods
birth and surrender
whole body and soul
to feed their young.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Hydroplaning''
[[Anonymous]]
Clumps of colored clay dripping
too slowly for the eye to see
outside of the car window
Rain splattering the roof as I hang
my hand through the handle
and limply I fall
Water spills and warps my body into wet
My colors blot and mix
He says a sad and desperate “fuck” with the heat of his breath
Spinning sticks and sticks
Thoughts go whizzing
Candle wicks and dripping
down to the quick
crooked lines of silt
and dripping quilted buzzing
something grumbling
wheel spinning sticks and
tumbling something and something
I’m greeted now by a lizard
bright green
Standing Sitting Swaying
Flattened Splayed Out
He sells me car insurance
I show him my teeth
His eyes bug out
He leaves.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''I Often Think of Painters' Hands''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
I often think of painters’ hands
while watching tall moving grasses
through the tent door mesh.
If I could only capture the world as I see it,
my painter’s eyes are at odds with my fumbling fingers.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''I want to live''
[[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
I want to live
In a house
With small white walls
A brown brick chimney
Piping smoke
And no roof
And no walls
White or not
No chimney
None of the wet
Drying grass I lie on
Nothing at all
I tilt my palm and watch it flip and fall
I have it all I have it all I have itBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Like a Winding Sheet''
[[Julia Palmer]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/cd202580-13fa-4248-a86d-6dc6e8f39abd/likeawindingsheet.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Maitland Mayor''
[[Olivia Searle]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/663c3f16-f7c7-4ba9-ba22-7dc0a797b115/Penny-farthing+portrait_7mondays_Olivia+Searle.jpeg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Moody beach''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/fc5a0708-dfe0-4b57-bdc3-9b75ba072db1/moodybeach.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''My Family Tree''
[[Bronwen Ramsey-Brimberg]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/cb16baa5-3ab6-4aaa-a4cf-974bc5f5fb1d/myfamilytree.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''My perfect escape''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
Sometimes I prefer empty thought,
but it seems I'm old enough now
that some songs break my heart with opening notes.
Reflection of a window in a window,
open setting skies above the dusted path
and a wind strong enough to rewind a couple weeks
in a foreign lifetime.
Like a collage, where the glue’s not quite dry
and the pieces slide around.
Birds along the highway remind me of my perfect escape.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''NO''
[[Julia Palmer]]
Listen up, because I’m only gonna say this once:
There better be no nilly noggined nonsense,
nor narky nasty niceties.
No noisy nitwit niggling,
or nightly naughty nuances.
No nits in the nachos,
and no gnats on the napkins.
No non-neutered nightingales,
‘cause my patience is running thin.
Don’t get your knickers in a knot,
and keep your hair nice and neat.
Stop your nauseating necking,
no neurotic nail biting, please.
No nibbling on the nasturtiums,
and no nude nimrods in the pool.
Absolutely no name dropping,
‘cause that’s just not cool.
No nose picking, no nicotine,
and no nun-nipping - that’s mean.
No needy nervous noodling unless absolutely necessary,
and leave the newly-weds - those two are scary.
No know-it-alls, no ninjas,
and if you nab the nunchucks, I’ll getcha.
No negative nicknames,
no, not even neutral ones.
No nagging! No napping!
No nattering, no narwhal-trapping!
No nougat! No newts!
No naked mole rats in my boots!
And never, EVER, neglect to notify your nurse when you need a new nappy.
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/fa628ee9-cef4-484c-958c-fcef29cffdf2/image+%283%29.png?content-type=image%2Fpng">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Rollercoaster''
[[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/f71a2422-20c5-424d-b7d9-4e0781ef8058/Rollercoaster.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Safe Passage''
[[Garret Ikinci]]
Have you seen the Mediterranean?
It is a sea of bodies,
Ancient, new,
New bodies, bodies of newborns,
Bodies of students and teachers,
Bodies of fathers, of new sisters
—So new-
Becoming ancient
As quickly
As the coastguard
Can let
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">The crying
<div style="text-indent: 6em;">Stop.</div>
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The beach is sultry, heat and love and sand,
But watch out for the shore now,
Kinetic, cooling, disemboweling
Shore
Shore of the blood within and blood without,
Castaway leaves, forgotten garments,
Surging foam like a smile, or grief.
Do you see the boy now?
The boy is wandering up to you,
He lost his shoes, they decorate the sea bottom
Like Roman gold, kindly refuge for flounders
and bottom-feeders
(Gold is no refuge, his parents paid dearly for safe passage.
<div style="text-indent: 20em;">So dearly.)</div>
He lost his parents too, his brother is lost from him;
He lives in Toronto, Scarborough’s where he lives;
He is studying pharmacy there,
He is paying his way through;
He thought he could pay for them too.
There, he shall know, he’ll see him on the news tonight.
He will know like and unlike us all.
The beach takes all wreckage in time:
How do we sit in the sun and sand, receiving time’s entrails?
Yes, warm yourself in the sand’s breath
Yes, untense, release your timely troubles like a kite
To fly and take back again
And you deserve this.
But the body is here.
The boy is caked in sand, water pools in the small of his back,
Flexible, young.
A continental crab shell,
Cavernous, damp, rotting like a log;
But a log is ancient, remainder of long life
And beauty tall in forests, who decay unendingly;
The boy turns six in two weeks,
But how could he know, when the crabs
Are crawling on his cheeks?Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Sasquatch'd''
[[Angus HT]]
This story starts in the woods.
Sasquatch loved the woods. The woods provided them a quiet place to sit and think. Not that they were ever anywhere but the woods of course. They sat amongst the thundering trunks and melodic calls of lovebound birds. The occasional small squirrel would run past them, crinkling the fallen leaves as their tiny budding paws ran swiftly by. Recently when Sasquatch thought, they often thought of rather sad things. The crushing weight of their solitude bore upon them and they often felt a tug inside their hairy chest. They felt as if they were far too complex to relate to any of their neighbouring creatures, Sasquatch desired much more than a walnut or a seed. They turned their mind to deeper desires, longing for a more profound calling.
Things had not always been this way.
This story also starts in the woods.
Sasquatch loved the woods. The woods provided them with all they could ever need. Endless stretches of flowering land to run and hunt, fresh rivers and lakes to keep them clean, a bountiful paradise. Everyday was a joy for Sasquatch, a new adventure to embark on. Sasquatch loved the feel of the grass on their feet, the roughness of bark on the trees they climbed. The same trees that bore the delicious ripe fruit Sasquatch so ever much enjoyed and provided the shade the hairy beast deeply desired on the scorching summer days. Sasquatch didn’t know where they came from, or really, where they were going. Despite this, Sasquatch felt their life was an easy-going one, free from the strife and danger that the small folk seem to bring.
This story starts where the woods used to be.
Sasquatch loved the woods, but loved what they had created even more. They stood surrounded by miles of desolate stumps, the tender birdsong and occasional squeak of a woodland mammal gone, replaced by a deafening silence. However, Sasquatch paid no attention to these minute details and revelled in their newfound purpose. They had spent countless days and nights toiling away, using their mighty strength to conquer the natural world. They harvested the land, just as they did in the before times, but with a newfound vigour. Every tree must be used, every blade of grass weaved into stronger, tougher material. Sasquatch’s new creation was everything they ever imagined. They had found their purpose, their longing. Sasquatch’s invention was bigger than the woods, bigger than anything in Sasquatch’s simple existence. Sasquatch ogled over their invention, imagining bright futures of progress and prosperity. No more running around aimlessly in the damp, dreary woods! No more living in a rut! Big things on the way for Sasquatch.
Thought Sasquatch.
This story starts where the woods will be.
A barren wasteland stretches across the land, the naked barren earth lay exposed and waiting, fertile and ready. Within the emptiness however, there is no grief. Only an exciting premonition of what is to be. A wind occasionally howls over the empty land, reminding an invisible warden that time still ticks on when there is no one to record it. Tick Tick Tick.
All of a sudden, a spot of green.
And a fur covered hand.
This story starts farther away from the woods than any other.
Sasquatch had loved the woods. It felt as if a chasm had split Sasquatch in two. Sasquatch yelled out in utter anguish, as they looked around themselves. The beautiful, vibrant and luscious leaves that had grown off every tree were gone. The small creatures who they had once considered their compatriots were gone. The delicious and colourful fruits they had once cheerfully climbed the sky-scraping trees for were gone. Why had they done this? Progress? Sasquatch themself didn’t know as they felt the chasm widen. But the trees had seemed so colourless. The fruits had seemed so mundane. Sasquatch felt the heat beat down on their hairy hide, no trees left to shade them from the sun’s fury. Sasquatch roared and beat their fists on the ground, anger and grief boiling up inside them. Progress. What was there to progress? Had Sasquatch not had it all there in front of them? Had Sasquatch not been happy? These thoughts would race through Sasquatch’s mind for the rest of their long, long life.
Eventually Sasquatch would leave the forest. Sasquatch would fly to all of the biggest cities in the world, promoting their invention. Sasquatch met with world leaders and tech gurus. Sasquatch would go on to win Time Person of the Year, along with a Nobel peace prize. Eventually Sasquatch would settle down and have some baby sasquatches. Sasquatche’s children would go on to inherit their large amounts of wealth and power, creating a lasting legacy upon this little blue planet floating in the void.
But Sasquatch never forgot the woods. The woods they destroyed. The woods they had loved. The woods that could one day grow again.
This story starts on the edge of the woods.
Sasquatch loved the woods, but sometimes it was nice to see another perspective. They peered out of the treeline upon the tiny village below the hill. They had seen this village
many times from the tops of the gargantuan trees that took days to climb, but they had never been so close to it before. In a nearby clearing from where Sasquatch was standing, they could see two of the small folk tending to their respective gardens. They used complicated tools, ones fused with nature and metal. The glint of these tools in the high afternoon sun caused Sasquatch to flinch. Sasquatch hurried away from the forest edge, sprinting across the maze of roots covering the forest floor. Something about those tools spurned Sasquatch, an instinctive feeling of fear, but also awe. As Sasquatch continued their journey through their woods, something felt different. Something felt off.
No.
Sasquatch loved the woods.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Snow fall''
[[Mason Riggs]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/5eeb489b-69f0-44db-8ffa-494be2b52d14/Snow+fall.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Snowbanks''
[[Marissa Lefurgey]]
Snowbanks,
Sneaky silhouettes,
Car accidents from
Smoking cigarettes;
Not so silent but
Still a secret.
Snowbanks,
Patient pirouettes,
Pining just to know
How to interpret;
Ripely alive though
Haven't paused yet.
Puddles,
Suffered intellect,
Springs' melted sleet not
The sign to forget;
A subject for a
Future poet.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
The decaying universe of things
rolling in and out of contemplation
breaking open ecosystems: fauna, flora,
waning, fading, fishes fleeing,
swimming and then only just escaping
warming waters.
(Look at the shadows and melt,
look at the movement and whisper
incantations, songs for the voiceless,
rustling breeze and human disturbance.)
i remember you told me about
trees and mushroom journeys,
mycelium routes were not to be connected
to the human brain electric.
you like to think about marsh salinity
and drive to watch grey herons in the tall moving grasses.
And in your days I've sensed,
when the workings of your mind have said:
“you only love me when i am yours”
and just like the shiny shell on the shore, the fallen oak seed and the bright color stone,
your beauty brims oblivious.
Then from afar i’ll love you, without claim to your appeal,
resisting the crack of the acorn
beneath my heavy-handed feet,
i'll watch it roll across the earth and out of my line of sight.
Ecology of systems bred to hold and raise and feed the earth.
Robin red flitting and pausing atop dried winter grasses, wetted in the morning rain,
shadows of the metal grate upon the old barn face, reminiscent of the leafy tree.
i try to imagine this world before my time, when the deep then slowly emerging shoots
had all the room to push upwards and open wide their green for the sunlight and the breezes.
i have heard about the dying plant life, the dispersal and extinction of the sturdy ice formation,
and still the sky is open and the cotton candy clouds are soft and unimposing,
so peaceful over towns.
And how might they still billow over worlds of detonation and of slow deterioration?
Mighty shaped horizon and the stillness of the willows,
now it stretches with the meadows brought by farmland domination.
(Look at the shadows and melt,
look at the movement and whisper
incantations, songs for the voiceless,
rustling breeze and human disturbance.)
A month of companionship;
soft sleek algae floating in mud water,
ice logs lingering then leaving their sand beds
in one sweep of sea they’re off, swimming with the grey seep of mist air
that mantles the horizon. Blooming in light liquid,
like my body in the realm of overwhelming soul
when my thoughts are immense, and my limbs tingly.
The ice in the water is matter in feeling, offering a solid hold that I might grab onto
and float across the spiritual quilted sea and sky
when the murky waters become dark clouds
and all is grey and soft and eternal.
The mild winter months burst in flames come April
and in the heat of collapse, I turned to the trees to remember:
the Cyclic Seasoned Summer
when the changes in heat and light
would sway like a pendulum from one extremity to the other
and my body shook as i tried to ignore a call for adjustment
and my eyes would tear to recognize a daunting completion,
to fight the smoked horizon.
And the trees burst open, a call for attention
as fall came early and red flames announced the death of the green.
(Look at the shadows and melt,
look at the movement and whisper
incantations, songs for the voiceless,
rustling breeze and human disturbance.)
i will surrender
when the grass is long and shimmering,
the energy buzz of the field
to keep these limbs so present,
the wind that blows and goes
and is but noticeable if the stalks stand still and the girl holds fast.
As the day brims to a close
the circular land will deaden and disappear.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Substratum Futurum''
[[Eric Coates (3r1c C0at3s)]]
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''Swamp''
[[Alicia Allen]]
Is it so bad for
This place to be a swamp
For if it is
Then I will be its monster
This sticky feeling
Dragged down under algae and moss
Of murky water and tadpoles
Of whatever that smell is
It boils in my stomach
Through my ribs it dances
In and out each bone and curling up my throat
A swamp of muck and dirt and slime
Of wrong and no and yes
All at the same time
My monstrous hands grasp sticks
Forgotten plants and pollution
My swamp is an ecosystem
Cohesive
Functioning
Living. Alive like nothing else
It is mine, so it must be pretty
It must be. Can't it?
Even if hands will never touch me
If eyes will never grace my body
My swamp water feelings will bubble
Will climb and jump and fly around
They will consume me
And all that is here
This bog
This muck
This soiled old Tim hortons cup half melted away in the water
In the distance
I am exposing myself
To the world
Do they see my monstrosity
Do they see how the dirt is old and used
How my trees have no leaves
How my water might have oil in it? The life underneath it all?
Will I be seen?
Do I want to be. Oh god—
Do I want to be?
Don’t look at me.
Don’t touch me.
Let me bathe in my swamp water.
It is safest here alone.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''The Grocery Store Song''
[[Anonymous]]
I’d like to introduce you
To reality
But I haven’t even met them myself
Your perception is based
Upon fallacies
And you’re actually someone else
Yeah,
The world’s pretty strange
It’s all based on a game
Where we confuse money for wealth
But follow along
Sing the words to this song
And we can send the system to hell
But I’m trippin’ out
At the grocery store
I’m preachin’ to the oranges
And lookin’ for the door
I’m in the wrong lineup
And I shoulda known better
Sign says 1-10 items
But I'm a go getter
I’ve got twenty packs of noodles
I’ve got 2 bags of chips
But it feels like my eyebrows
Are becomin’ my lips
I’ve got 3 bags of candy
I’ve got 4 things of juice
It was comin’ in handy
Now my mind’s lettin’ loose
She says paper or plastic
And I felt so fantastic
Because I brought bags of my own
How bombastic
I said it’s raining acid
It’s filling Lake Placid
The sky is deflated
And the trees are all flaccid
The Amazon’s burning
Not the website
The forest
And the globe will stop turning
It is burning before us
Electricity still supports fossil fuels
So are we all heroes?
Or just a carpool of fools
But I’m trippin’ out
In the checkout line
I’m preachin’ to the cashier
"You’re holdin’ up the line!”
So I swipe
Is that right?
Do I tap or insert?
I want to be gentle
The economy’s hurt
Put the bread on the bottom
Put the eggs on the top
The scanning, the beeping
Can you please make it stop?
The chicken is hot
But the pizza is cold
The junk food is fresh
But the vegetables old
They’re done ringing me through
It’s expensive I’m told
She says one million dollars
And I scream out “SOLD!”
But I’m trippin’ out
When I’m lookin’ at my bill
Because somebody’s pockets
Are just lookin’ to get filled
And they say it’s inflation
But I’ve got no doubt
That it’s from the hot air
They’re all blowin’ out
Because they’ve only got dollars
They don’t got any sense
But I’ve said way too much
And this is where the song endsBack to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''The Leviathan''
[[Garret Ikinci]]
The Leviathan
Underneath the velvet
Grows on bones left there
By the children left there
To play despite the danger.
How long has he slept?
He never leaves his shroud,
His shining velvet shroud,
Like a fish scale magnified
And beaten soft by water
Sea-minted, moon in pool
-Fearful mantle of God.
His deep-down mansions
Lit like a blue-moon soiree,
Smoking candles carved
From rendered fat, pale,
And roots rain over his
Great age-marbled halls
In earth's gross fragrant heart.
His velvet conch-shell couch,
His thronelike vertebrae
Sprouting from his spine,
Nero's nervous column;
The slimy belly
A fatty sequined coat
His low and sleek breastplate,
Golden, sulphuric
Like sweat shiny and rank,
Caught, kept for cures
By trembling supplicants,
Sold like tears from saints
-And their receipt, the bones.
Who left the children?
Playing in the roots, lost
Beneath the fanged woods
Crawling with unseen crows
Atop leprous trees
-Now floating, entranced by
Sweetness
<div style="text-indent: 2em;">Seeping from him,
Mournful king of mankind.</div>Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''The little ones keep me sane''
[[Shaki V.W.]]
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''Various Poems after Ancient Poets''
[[Noelle Cook]]
''Ovid: Periodic Infatuation''
In the night, among the storms and miseries, I recall your hands and all they have done.
Their grounding, sturdy grasp.
The way in which they have led each of your students to musical excellence.
The rough callouses that adorn their peaks and valleys, hardened snow-capped mountains that protect each oblivious nerve as you strum.
The cliff-like heights of your rough fingers: each digit a new adventure, every dip and curve an edge upon
Which I grab hold, a crimp for my hand to meld into.
Your palms: the nurturing breast of Gaia herself, a tender embrace through which I may explore you,
To understand you.
From these hands you create the music that consumes me, fills my senses.
Floating through the air at each featherlight touch,
Each breath-like stroke steals my own away. The breath upon which dear Eros floats,
The air that carries his wings. In your art you harness the god’s marksmanship
And strike my chest, piercing empty lungs.
But how can I do the same? I tell you that I have fallen in love -
You respond with a breathy laugh and return to your craft.
Must I craft my own weapon, beg the aid of Aetnaean Hephaestus?
Allow him to forge a dagger in the flames of my passions for you,
So that I may pierce your chest as you have struck mine?
What will make you feel as I do? My heart ablaze, faltering, stuttering at every touch.
Each glance and my face is alight,
Rose painted cheeks betray my attempts of concealment.
Your silence is palpable, perhaps it is what I must steal;
Take its pliancy, sculpt your visage, and fire it in a kiln
To present you a marbled doppelgänger.
Perhaps it is this sense of change that I lack,
You desire the nymphs that course through the rivers,
Daphne in her instant transformation to laurels. Don't you know she was fearful?
Don’t you know that transformation is often the result of fear, of defense?
To evolve is to flee, you wish me to run? Would that finally get you to chase me?
Footsteps close behind my own, thundering like the crash of a waterfall.
I have a hunch, that that’s all you wanted from me; to slip through your fingers,
Drip down your dark skin and pool at your feet.
To cool you down in the summer heat but remain silent.
Lap at your shores and perform for you, but never to be taken home.
I am the ocean. I am the rain. I am a force of nature.
You want the tap water, the domesticated, the demure.
And while you consume every element of my being,
I cannot reduce for you.
''Sappho: Undeserving''
You tell me, breathily: quiet and young,
That it is not the right time. In turn, I brush the satin skin of your arm
with my unworthy fingers, relishing in this moment
as I now know it is fleeting.
I wonder whatever you could mean by this,
As when I am with you, time becomes a falsehood, a sculpture of sand,
washed away in the tide of your presence, the minutes melting away.
In your eyes, I see eternity.
The vast ocean glistening, inviting yet unpredictable:
Comfort and excitement bundled into your soul.
So, tell me, my love, what time do you desire? Tell me so that I may seek out Kronos,
And lay his centuries at your feet.
Tell me whatever it is you pine for, name it and it is yours.
For you, I would collect every flower of Kore to adorn your golden locks.
For you, I would pluck the stars from Uranus’ slumbering spine,
And hang them in your room.
Whatever the price of your love, I will pay, so tell me!
The distance between us, the imminent parting saddens me so.
Does this dull your shine? Your silken hair, once a roaring flame, now softened with ash.
But it brings me no less elation to stroke.
To push behind your ear and reveal your beauty.
Show me your smile, darling, so that I may count each tooth.
We will be together in time, but for now,
It is wrong.
''Catullus: Shattered''
Ah. It's you.
Yes, I see you there.
Do not turn away from me.
Do not make this any worse.
I see your frame shrink, a fraction of the man you once were.
A boy before me.
My heart halts all function, killing me instantly; I stand still and yet chaos ensues.
My pulse beats on my bones, screaming, begging me to leave.
To remove you from my sight.
But I do not listen.
I stand before you a mountain, unmoving despite the howling of your winds.
Your stench.
Gods, the way it sickens me, the same smell that was once so inviting,
So alluring, now pungent in its sultriness.
I am far too aware of the purpose it serves.
As we sip this liquid flame and hear the conversation passing around us,
We shift our eyes from one another, awkwardly dancing this social waltz.
My once bright, optimistic eyes now dulled, in the way a mirror never reflects properly
Once it is shattered, glued together by your measly apologies.
Can you even bear to look at me? Look! At once! See the mess you have made,
The shit in the barn stall you chose to leave, the chore you left unfinished.
I know you can see it, through the cracks in my makeup, violets bloom beneath my eyes.
Pink lace adorns my skin; evidence of tearful, sleepless nights.
You see and say nothing.
Your silence deafens me, I would rather you scream.
To shout and yell and tell me you hate me, it would make you a villain.
Someone who is easy to hate.
I suppose you already are; you stole my innocence,
You broke my heart. Here! Take it why don’t you, I have no use for it now.
It is broken anyhow; it only knows how to love you.
And it simply cannot stop.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''We Take Pride In Our Work''
[[Riley Small]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/39fc8479-f2ec-400a-9288-5e8015e465fc/We+Take+Pride+In+Our+Work.png?content-type=image%2Fpng" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Wood pile 1''
[[Mackenzie Chase]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/1b92e21c-cb7a-4a6f-a6dc-5ade397e3cfd/lumber1-12x9.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Wood pile 2''
[[Mackenzie Chase]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/0882037e-2440-4013-a4c0-4053cfcfa336/lumber2-12x9.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''pop!''
[[Mason Riggs]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/b4a06c48-bc4a-4221-8907-2ecdbcbfe19d/pop%21.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''prayer in morning light''
[[marshall drew]]
unfurled, the hand of God
looked smaller than originally expected.
Her mighty fist softened & creased
with the life-line cut across vulnerable palm.
i thought myself an athiest
before the ruddy skin,
the supple flesh,
the world made anew and tender with fingertips.
how easy to believe when She lies
before you.
when Her hair is catching the light.Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''roadside falls''
[[Mason Riggs]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/98873d97-9eae-45ef-9caa-19912ca263ca/roadside+falls.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''serenity field''
[[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/660621f04008ed579078d832/f177e585-ab22-4536-87bc-82459dfaea4e/serenity+field.jpeg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg" width="1000px">Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Alex Couch//
To fall asleep, Alex pictures large open fields, mountains, and scenes from her childhood in Jamaica and Canada. She loves a lot of things.
Who am I? The girls dem sugar.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Alicia Allen//
Mature student from New Brunswick that has had a passion for writing since she was very young, often encouraged in school to share her work and by teachers asking to be her audio book voice. Doesn't often write poetry, so this is a foreign style for her.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Angus HT//
Hey, thanks for reading! I'm a third year English major who hopes someday they can be paid a living wage to write fun stories for page and screen. Or writing those facts on bottle cap bottoms, either or.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Anonymous//
7 Mondays allows contributors to choose to remain Anonymous, though we encourage people to take credit for their beautiful work!Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Bronwen Ramsey-Brimberg//
Bronwen Ramsey-Brimberg is a young emerging artist based in Connecticut, United States and New Brunswick, Canada. Her mediums include photography, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and fiber arts. Undertaking a bachelor of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University, Bronwen integreates her interests in visual material culture into her work in a creative and visually pleasing way.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Eric Coates (3r1c C0at3s)//
Bangarang.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Freddy Hyun Smith//
is writes a poemBack to [[Table of Contents]]
//Gabriel Theriault//
Originally from Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, Gabriel Theriault is now completing a bachelor of music degree at Mount Allison.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Garret Ikinci//Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Jaden Ward//
Jaden Ward is a third year BFA student with their primar fields of study being photography, painting, and drawing. They value working in an experimental and alternative way, with the process being a large part of the final piece.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Julia Palmer//
Julia is a third-year English student at Mount Allison University. She never really did figure out how to write a bio.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Kathleen Fox//
Kathleen Fox is a writer from Moncton, New Brunswick, who tends to mostly write about her uncertainties. She began her literary studies at Mount Allison University, took a brief existential hiatus, and now holds a BA in English from teh University of Victoria. She is currently working as a supply teacher as she contemplates furthering her academic education.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Mackenzie Chase//
My photography started out as an exercise in observation. It has since evolved into an artistic practice drawn to elements like light, lines, space, and textures.
I've recently been drawn, through my photo studio class, to alternative processes such as embroidery on found photographs and polaroid emulsion lifts.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Maika Branch//
Maika Branch is a writer and performer from Moncton, NB. A mediocre trilingual and VERY normal about lighthouses, Maika loves video essays, Atlantic Canada's geologic history, speculative fiction, pretending to be an expert about Atlantic Canada's geologic history, and storytelling in its many forms. She currently studies English and Drama Studies at MTA.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Marissa Lefurgey//
Marissa is a third year English student currently doing an independent study in Collage Poetry. She spends her free time writing, and choreographing dance routines for the MTA Dance Team and Perpetual Motion Dance Studio.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Mason Riggs//
A hobbyist photographer from Maine.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Michael Yuta Ahmadvand//
I am Michael Yuta Ahmadvand (he/him) and I'm from Bookside, Nova Scotia! I am a hobbyist photographer whose favourite things to photograph are landscapes, buildings, and nature. I also enjoy playing and watching soccer, watching movies, playing video games, hiking, reading, and going on adventures. You can find me at a movie theatre, on a long walk, or at a soccer game. Feel free to approach me and talk about literally anything, I love making new friends!Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Noelle Cook//
has only ever been published in rural newspapers, so this is really exciting.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Olivia Searle//
Olivia Searle is an emerging artist and fourth year Fine Arts student at Mount Allison University, who resides in Truro, Nova Scotia. With a practice focused in photography, she works primarily in both large and medium format film processes. Olivia's work explores her experience of place, community, and relationships, with notions of time, preservation, and memory kept in mind. Her current work centers around the small community of Maitland, Nova Scotia, where she works to share her experience of getting to know a community and it's residents through photography.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Ranz Jaren Tayo Bontogon//
Ranz is an emerging artist and a student in the Pierre Lassonde School of Fine Arts at Mount Allison, who comes from teh city of Taguig, Philippines. He immigrated to the growing city of Moncton, NB, ten years ago and now resides upon the windswept marches of Mi'kma'ki, nestled in the town of Sackville. Photography is his calling and a medium through which he expresses his deep connection to his heritage. Ranz strives to promote cultural awareness and strengthen an appreciation for the rich culture of his beloved homeland. Through his lens, Ranz aims to capture genuine moments, tell powerful stories that celebrate diversity, and ignite curiosity about different cultures & perspectives.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Riley Small//
Riley is a third year BFA student who practices in photography, painting, and drawing.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Shaki V.W.//
Shaki owes much of her inspiration to the Cube (the fridge of the town) and the Fridge (the cube of the library?). Both reside in Sackville NB; the love of her life.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Sobechi Cornella Madueke-Aniemeka//
I am a Psych major and comp sci minor. I've owned a journal for as long as I could hold a pencil. I don't know if I'd call myself a writer but writing has surely been a tool I use to offload thoughts that can't get out of my head. When spoken words fail me my ability to pour random words and then piece them together on either a piece of paper or my notes app is a gift I'm grateful for.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//Tedi Buffett//
Tedi is a third-year BA in English student at Mount Allison University.Back to [[Table of Contents]]
//marshall drew//
Marshall is a trans and queer poet from Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia). They never know what their poems are about until they're finished.''Table of Contents''
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//Writing://
[[Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:]] by [[Alex Couch]]
[[A strong gust of wind]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[7 Takis]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Bathtub]] by [[Eric Coates (3r1c C0at3s)]]
[[. . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Snowbanks]] by [[Marissa Lefurgey]]
[[I Often Think of Painters' Hands]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
[[Cordoba]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
[[A poem]] by [[Sobechi Cornella Madueke-Aniemeka]]
[[Candlelight]] by [[Garret Ikinci]]
[[Ghosts]] by [[Tedi Buffett]]
[[Hydroplaning]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[A note from the Knails]] by [[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
[[prayer in morning light]] by [[marshall drew]]
[[Swamp]] by [[Alicia Allen]]
[[A man says,]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Beach Poem]] by [[Maika Branch]]
[[I want to live]] by [[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
[[Fall Semester]] by [[Kathleen Fox]]
[[My perfect escape]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
[[NO]] by [[Julia Palmer]]
[[The Grocery Store Song]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Alone]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Sasquatch'd]] by [[Angus HT]]
[[Dear Mr. Irving]] by [[Anonymous]]
[[Various Poems after Ancient Poets]] by [[Noelle Cook]]
[[Safe Passage]] by [[Garret Ikinci]]
[[The Leviathan]] by [[Garret Ikinci]]
[[Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
//Art://
[[Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)]] by [[Ranz Jaren Tayo Bontogon]]
[[Substratum Futurum]] by [[Eric Coates (3r1c C0at3s)]]
[[Snow fall]] by [[Mason Riggs]]
[[serenity field]] by [[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
[[Maitland Mayor]] by [[Olivia Searle]]
[[Electric]] by [[Jaden Ward]]
[[Rollercoaster]] by [[Freddy Hyun Smith]]
[[The little ones keep me sane]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
[[Filling Up]] by [[Julia Palmer]]
[[Like a Winding Sheet]] by [[Julia Palmer]]
[[Moody beach]] by [[Shaki V.W.]]
[[Chicken]] by [[Gabriel Theriault]]
[[roadside falls]] by [[Mason Riggs]]
[[My Family Tree]] by [[Bronwen Ramsey-Brimberg]]
[[Wood pile 1]] by [[Mackenzie Chase]]
[[Wood pile 2]] by [[Mackenzie Chase]]
[[pop!]] by [[Mason Riggs]]
[[Fallen Leaves]] by [[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
[[Atlas of the Fields]] by [[Michael Yuta Ahmadvand]]
[[We Take Pride In Our Work]] by [[Riley Small]]Back to [[Table of Contents]], (link-goto: "random piece", (either: "Grandmama's recipe, for cornmeal porridge:", "A strong gust of wind", "7 Takis", "Bathtub", ". . .And the Tree. . . And then. . .", "Snowbanks", "I Often Think of Painters' Hands", "Cordoba", "A poem", "Candlelight", "Ghosts", "Hydroplaning", "A note from the Knails", "prayer in morning light", "Swamp", "A man says,", "Beach Poem", "I want to live", "Fall Semester", "My perfect escape", "NO", "The Grocery Store Song", "Alone", "Sasquatch'd", "Dear Mr. Irving", "Various Poems after Ancient Poets", "Safe Passage", "The Leviathan", "Songs for the Voiceless: Lines Written on Earth", "Ang Aking Pamilya (My Family)", "Substratum Futurum", "Snow fall", "serenity field", "Maitland Mayor", "Electric", "Rollercoaster", "The little ones keep me sane", "Filling Up", "Like a Winding Sheet", "Moody beach", "Chicken", "roadside falls", "My Family Tree", "Wood pile 1", "Wood pile 2", "pop!", "Fallen Leaves", "Atlas of the Fields", "We Take Pride In Our Work"))
''Alone''
[[Anonymous]]
As time unfolds
The future beholds
Major beauty throughout
this vast forbidden land
No illusion left to prove
Still escapin' from this scam
Lucy whispered truth
Boyhood through, I am this man
Losin' touch with reality?
I'm exposin' these fallacies
Tie my lace
The rabbit around the tree
Seems like a waste
The act of balancing
But I digress
Quote unquote it's normal stress
Just do your best
Deal with it like all the rest
A black sheep in a field of white fluff
Creating experience
while everybody's buyin' stuff
No secret
A world full of delusion
But please remain blissful
On your autopilot cruisin'
Ignore and tell yourself
That my wit deserves a bruisin'
I'll keep on bustin' rhymes
while everybody's snoozin'
(I'm all alone)
Way too busy gettin' stoned
Understand myself
Same technique as Al Capone
So notorious
Always sinkin', never grow
A free or lonely soul?
Ride the wind
Wait till it blows
(I'm all alone)
The loneliness forgets me
Fragile times, my mood is vexing
Is love a crime?
Life so perplexing
Confess my sins
Direct correcting
On the quest for something deeper
Price is not a factor
Whether its costly, or it’s cheaper
Feed my selfish appetite
Anticipate what may ignite
Cuttin’ out it's been a slice
I’m a fool, no need to fight
No more pity
Enough late nights cryin’
Wish they would hear me
But instead they’re pryin’
All done hidin’
Time to widen these horizons
Use my own guidance
Trust my gut it says defiance
Social cues
Got me seekin' validation
Peace + love, X-factor, free creations
Switchin' up the route
Problem solved equal equation
Oppress my feelings
Lock em way down in the basement
Keep em down
It's like the Great Depression
Put the blame on others
(Nah)
Reflect my own repression
Challenge people constantly
Life got me full court pressin'
Shot clock windin' down
Buzzer sounds, we change possession
(I'm all alone)
Way too busy gettin' stoned
Understand myself
Same technique as Al Capone
So notorious
Always sinkin', never grow
A free or lonely soul?
Ride the wind
Wait till it blows
(I'm all alone)
The loneliness forgets me
Fragile times, my mood is vexing
Is love a crime?
Life so perplexing
Confess my sins
Direct correcting
The past is where I hide
But tomorrow’s where I stay
Reflective in the light
Darkness demons out to play
Rollin', burnin' holes, survivin' my own way
Smile's always bright,
But my mood is always grey
Failure always flirts
Find importance in this work
Reminded of my flaws
But forgettin' my self worth
Risin' before dawn
So I’m chirpin’ with the birds
Stitchin‘ up my pieces
Scars healed
No need to hurt
Spirit flow
Find my peace when I’m alone
Dissociate my glow
Journey ponder where to go
Water purpose watch it grow
Never certain, never known
Curtain, ending of the show
Standing O, a stage below
Seekin’ out my heart it's misplaced
Killed my expectations
I'm creatin' my own fate
Shine the spotlight on me
Never hidin' from this hate
No idea where I'm goin'
I'm just openin' the gate
(I'm all alone)
Way too busy gettin' stoned
Understand myself
Same technique as Al Capone
So notorious
Always sinkin', never grow
A free or lonely soul?
Ride the wind
Wait till it blows
(I'm all alone)
The loneliness forgets me
Fragile times, my mood is vexing
Is love a crime?
Life so perplexing
Confess my sins
Direct correcting