when our wheels roll off our loved ones’ pebbles and unto pavement the chromatics in crushed stone are left behind then comes that sustained lonely hum but while still strumming we can swap a minor scale for a major and vice versa even change the colour of our music; yes,…
Month: February 2024
WOUNDS
My heart drums a hundred yards from your silhouette in the cabin window. Coasting closer, keel and paddles slash the elongated twin of white gibbous; the wounds mending instantly. Unlike ours. The darts we fired, bitter words that begat tears, your eyeliner dragging down your cheek, your quicker-than-the-eye palm biting my jaw;…
EARNESTLY DESIRE
(The Seder, Passover, Jerusalem, 30 A.D.) In eagerness tinged with anxiety, Jesus reclines on his left side between John and Judas on the middle of three couches facing the u-shape supper table. This table, he knows, bears his last Passover meal. His disciples, sitting likewise, are in rapt conversation, their voices and carefree…