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  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    curiosity why did God chose to make us as soft as flesh when He Himself is a strong as rock, as fast as the wind, and as beautiful as the ...

    Apr 30
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    coniferous i’ve known centuries of him. i’m in genesis for love, riotous. cedars of lebanon, thud, thud, thud. the nasturtiums turn the color of thoughts, nonopaque, my feelings for him ...

    Apr 29
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    i will repay you he told me that he first felt love at nineteen, but the locusts have since eaten it. i feel like i live in half now. faith ...

    Apr 28
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    ransom on grey, he and i lean together in the kitchen. his fingers on my lowest vertebrae, his feet on tile, my feet on his, in tune to the lyric ...

    Apr 27
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    lyceum his eyes less river, they’re nightish. there’s no verse left. there’s only his eyes, reflecting christmas lights, reflecting the glow of lighters, reflecting the glow of me. he’s centim

    Apr 27
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    danny the gap in his front teeth is like the yam šup, sea of reeds, which refers ontically to something closer to a marsh. that man that licks locusts and ...

    Apr 26
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    pyre i am thinking, here, of God writing in a language no one yet knows (dan 5), or performing creation so good He writes it twice, differently each time (j-source, ...

    Apr 24
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    deuteronomy 34 reading over notes for my lectures, daniel feigns that he knows nevuchadnezzar. in the convent, his room looks out over the veranda; light hits it late in the ...

    Apr 24
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    daniel he’s viriscene, he’s close to me, ill lit. city to city, nanking, first kiss to the other night. i'm colored in his colors, in the oils, the reliefs, the ...

    Apr 23
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    sun he had gravity. he was so riotous, captivating. there was real levity there, enviable lightness. in voice notes he recites grocery lists: ripe cucumber, leeks, bone broth, tofu. in ...

    Apr 16
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    forgetting i remember resenting things, then loving them. i remember the tv he liked, the lessons he taught me, his lyrics or verse, how he told me things over coffee ...

    Apr 13
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    5/5. prognosis wheat and tares, lemon, myrrh, gold in the temple, the things the child of nazareth touches linger through the verses. He’s looking for new textures, new rhetoric of ...

    Apr 13
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    daniel (no verse) i'm vigiling him, the friday nights, the tofu fudge, limning, the romantic. he flits into my life through the fifth floor. the verse is never not this, ...

    Apr 13
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    daniel 1:4 raising prophets has a feeling, like a pull on the nape of your neck. in or near the year that samaria falls, there is the pull of him, ...

    Apr 12
  • NaPoWriMo Re: dingir

    daniel 10:6 the line of his nose, / necklace thickly on my cheek. / my feet on his feet. that's the verse. the lover from the negev valley in flesh ...

    Apr 11


I just write poetry to throw my mean callous heartless exterior into sharp relief. I’m going to throw you off the ship anyway.
— Vogon Captain (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)