Model: Finish the Poem

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There are clouds
when I am so immovably
in love with you,
and there are races
when I could drop
you like a pin.

— August Elsenbroek

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but if the sky should fall asunder,
and those clouds beckon you home,
may the weight of my heart
be heavy enough to anchor your
your restless soul.

Races and pins are ancient things
love and clouds, even older

I feel relief,
Like taking off a sweater
That is too tight

Let me poop on you.

there is lighting
when I reach for you
light breaking into finger
and there is silence
when the door is broken down
and you—
you are not there.

To finish something
So open ended
Would be a crime —
So find the time
To lock me up
In the sky

im sorry im kinda drunk rn 😭

You like a pin
I could drop, immovably
and there are races
when I’m in love with
you only when
there are clouds.

Burning up,
& deciding is killing me
I might break your heart
trying to help you.

Balloon twirl timeless

The waitress
is returning to our table,
the bill is due:
your banana split,
my water glass.
Table for two.

Lips, blossom, skip, delight

I believe August can do it!

cumulate

You are always teaching me the meaning of coquettear

There are oceans
when my tears dry
dreaming of you,
and there are butterflies
when you open your arms
to hold me.

Worship comes easy these days / like silt in my coffee / at the diner with the biscuits you like best – / one reliable promise / in a faltering world.

the waves are screaming and im being quartered by the clocktower

But then I’d bend over
to pick you up,
and repeat it all again

The bar was hot it’s 2am it feels like summer

hot dog !

when will I realize, the love I strive for is already burrowed deep within.

Axe “and there are” for cirrus streaks which race

These lines are converging on a vantage point, a pebble in the distance. I can see its shape. I cannot hold it, but I know it’s heavier than it looks.

Because love
is a fool’s game.

milky, insect, mirror, deliver, creaking, surrender

Chairs fall undone
when memory is lighter
than wings on your back,
and the stage can echo
your chests gleam.

There are spaces where my texts to you should be and moments I can never move on from.

steep, tidal marsh, open window

I feel relief
Like taking off a sweater
That is too tight

there are meadows that meet
mountains like mouths,
and there are wish bones
i broke early to give you
the lucky half.

Should I want to be fast
I luxuriate in the shade
stop to catch my pale breath

Duplicity is familiar

City, tree, forgetting

there are colors when you’re candy in my pocket

There are tops spinning in my eyes – how they tire of their endless dirge. In every way, we are splintered, in every way, we are whole.

there are too many clouds
for one sky to keep,
and a sky in me
that will not take your shape

Shundle

The last stone/ holds itself above / the water a second/ longer/ than it needs/ before skipping in

Mercury. Greyhound. Eyelash.

Where are shrouds
Then why too, untimely
Because of you
And where are laces
Then i could tie
You like a shoe

i wanna think on this one… ❤

what is moving
shifts behind me ;
peering the mirror
to see within

(sorry a cheese ball rhyme came first 😁)

But I never believed in the fool’s spring

There i am in Machu Pichu. Looking like a snack.

And that dear
cirrus, cumulus
stratospheric
weather that
turns me like a turbine
I wish it would burn

off and leave me green

Yet still, you pull me
Somehow gravitational,
I float in, nesting with discrete glee

And sometimes it’s both in the span of seconds.

And you would clink
the same sharp way you shine
when you laugh,

and put you in my water bottle

There are colors
to describe the feel of
knowing you
but those shades have faded
into blue

heart switch-back in perpetual
so high up here i think i see your living room
shadow in the dust bunny collected in the curling fan cob web

This time
emotions are changeable
clothing on a dolls skin
splintered arrow hits home
and In both cases,
I win.

puddle

and there are girls who break the glass ceiling #leanin

in the interim / i hold my breath / only to exhale slow / the way you taught me / blood still speeding away from my heart