Poem again

[kiya]

Bearing

Their eyes ask why
Come out of the cave
If I could
Hibernate
Until there is light

But—

They never felt
The closet's steel jaws
Tasting blood,
And
Silence
Which is—

Comments

[batrachian]

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[kiya]

I will say that my state of stuff leads to a bunch of these tiny savage gutpunch poems....

[graydon]

Excellent tiny savage gutpunch poems.

Hopefully also of some assistance to the stuff.

[kiya]

"I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me" - The Mountain Goats

also the Mountain Goats:

Our mother has been absent
Ever since we founded Rome
But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.


Art is survival.

[madgastronomer]

I read this when I first got up and was out of it enough that I could not figure out the natural end of that last line. I just read it again, and yeah, tiny savage gut punch.

[amberite]

<3