Self preservation
No man is an island
Nor is he born free of debt
Rain (2017)
Water droplets fall
The world is being reborn
Its sins washed away
21 – dreamer-
I have watched this girl for a while now,
she is becoming more like the trees she loves
so much, every time my eyes catch her tiny
frame wondering through the bush, her skin
etched with wonder lines her hair mattered like
branches, the sun dulling her to an earthy brown
the rain leaving river beds in the country of her body,
the seas tide marks wander up her legs, salt crystals
cling to the soft down on her legs. she has become the
ebb and flow of an old memory, a spirit of land.
-s.j.duncan-
Hour Twenty-One, Exaggeration
Tall True Tale
My Creek Native American ancestor
was seven feet tall
and a blacksmith
that married a white woman
and drove his cattle and sheep
eight hundred miles to market
one way
on foot
and returned home empty-handed
eight hundred miles again.
He died from pneumonia
at age twenty-one
and thus escaped the Trail of Tears,
his baby girl just one year old,
and his wife remarried
and birthed seven sons.
All true.
I swear.
Purple Mountain Majesty
When she smiles, she lights up the sky
Her eyes sparkle and dazzle.
But that hair,
That hair,
That beautiful purple hair.
It’s majestic and royal and grand.
Layers and layers of curls,
Styled so high.
An indigo spire
In the sky.
Caregiving
I poke my head into your room to ask a question.
And find
You
Clutching your stomach,
A fistful of chub in each hand.
You stare at yourself
With disgust,
With loathing,
With sadness.
“Fuck,” you say.
And I realize
That if I ever love myself,
It will be in spite of you.
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Outta Space…
Falling out of love
with you
came too easy
Now I question
why
even more
Was there?
No
there wasn’t
I made it all up
Reality rears its
ugly head again
I shall have to
write it all down
turn it into a book
Or just another story
for you
to
read
Weather
Today’s weather news
The eastern sun is so hot it can melt the Mount Everest into a puddle,
And that too would evaporate.
While the Northern winds carry on their onslaught, with cold that can freeze over hell.
The rains in the west have turned into a tsunami, though we aren’t sure…. Our crew drowned as well.
The only normal region seems to be south since they have huge, humongous, giant gates.
That’s all for today!
HOUR7
Reflecting on human nature
Burning questions,
vague answers,
why is everything
so complicated?
What should we do
to appease pain?
in us and in others too!
Or are we doomed to be selfish?