Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Jerico Mandybur's avatar

Awakening into something like interest

A question not yet known but felt as fizzy foot and fingers tingling.

A movement? A word? There is too much here in

hot minds flooded by violence and kindness and everything else

life forms soft and raw can tolerate.

I don’t know the question but the answer’s not fixing.

It takes no fixing to see how sturdy things fall

and soft things rise or how butterflies drink tears from crocodiles eyes

or the mystery of hope born and reborn again or the way some things

only grow in dark places.

Expand full comment
Jerico Mandybur's avatar

When I pay attention…

I see a single white

hair on my dog’s back

and stroke it.

One, two, four more.

Tiny flecks in a

forest of black fur.

I see her whiskers.

Hear her breath.

Feel it on my face

as I lean it in,

secretively

and wonder

what she dreams about.

Expand full comment
33 more comments...

No posts