peace • poems

sonnets on everydayness

or, our missed respiration felt euphoria

november 2025 • video, 6:22

how…

i missed you when the seasons changed
everyonething died including us and family
dreams live on holidays without dinner
gatherings cease where one remains
i missed you where hope gave up; ran
our laughter echoes softness giving
nostalgia; missed…

sonnets on everydayness

strewn about disordering sunlight
woven threads gave way where diffusion
offered contentment along interruptive interstices
layers confuse bonds how we touched yet never
became each other an overlap we could not complete
compete

we fight over resourced vibrations who call us in levatations above higher grounds

earth gave us home
where we made property

they feel better in love
they said they owned us
belonged to them when we
asked to be held, felt, they gave us

maybe i want to go back by walking forward
consuming an occupied abyss…   memory

how life lives within anticipation
our living occurs within its breath

…respiration.

•

we are longing for a memory

less a place [tangible]
a sensation [something more vicious than fickle]

…felt.

•

in opposition with lingering

•

they broken happy
     ah, yes!

…euphoria.

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