A nothing from nowhere cast his words to a world wide wind, hindered by periphery. |
Why I don’t submit? Recon on where to submit invites my ADHD to obsess like an owl with a Tootsie Pop. I find a sweet crunch and forget what to savor, sideways again go… We’re not so different, you and I…. https://massreview.org/sites/default/files/13_64.1Ok.pdf …is something I could never get the nerve to say. As I stare out a window Up to the branch on the crab Pointed directly at me… Longing, I spy your winter Coat melting off. Feathers Baffle breezes tormented, Beg strip you free. You eye me, eye me, Side to side, side to side — Never…with such beauty. My heart feels worth slip Through a clear pane. Vanity is insecurity, but Only for the borrower Of a free spirit’s wing Diving for the feeder, then Bomberang away to the sky Because I flinched an inch. We’re not so different… I feel even more alone whisper mutter keep to yourself. Let me have this moment… I’ll be fine. 5.5.23 I just made that up on the fly… No bird outside, caged Is/in my heart. Adverb! Adverb! Adverb alert! Delete, delete, delete… I was just… A-ha! Uh-hah. You are very Very. . 😏 After…fine…do I speak to you, to me…to you through me? to me through you? Somewhere in the narrative divide, not personification, a third person/1st person narration, but a fourth wall I only see the divide of this personality, reflecting, deflecting back and forth off satellites to off shore accounts, transferred a thousand times, pinging off space rock, floating free in a black sea, never incinerate, falling back, burn for reentry, but what black holes spy, crave, if even a glim of shine. Now? I digress… Maybe, another run to look into publications to submit, after lunch. I’ll be distracted for a week or a month or forever, at times. Now, what was/what am I doing? Ignoring right hand arthritic numbness, tingling *shakes hand repeatedly*…what is this compulsion…he tapped with an extended ring finger (right index isn’t ‘having it’ today)? The pinkie tapped the inserted ‘right’. Showing off, now. |