Saturday, October 17, 2026

mmmmmccxxv

heart to heart
(another sonnet with a big blue wave)

         I was careful to use the right words
                                  —Micah Ballard

watched it stroke the midnight
sometimes     i’m a person who’d
much rather relay all the feels
   there’s so much more     and at such
a faster pace           is life really happ

ening again?      and i must repeat
that it is not that i am holding
back what i hold deciding not to
reveal          i have my reasons    death is not
one of them
sounds like a diversion

the jackhammer has the sidewalk pur
ring tonight        a loss of self forces a hand    sense
of self?       sincerest self       boards boost bodies
over behemoth wave at one and some

meow midnight