A contemporary poem about a shared falling, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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We fell out of the argument together. No one won the useful height. The stairs received our silence, step by step. At the landing, you laughed first. I followed, surprised by the ground. Some descents are not endings— they are the body finding its people.
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A thing without a practical name resists ownership and remains open to a less instrumental way of seeing.
A contemporary poem about the way the body misreads, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
A contemporary poem about two things stay down, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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