If some assembly
is required then there should be
storage included
to snap into place
stationary or rocker
flexibility
is key no clue where
all this stuff will go after
a few months of use
perhaps handed down
to a place in the attic
forgotten by dust
spine bookmarked pages
easy to remember how
it can be folded
and unfolded for
travel or storage from one
place to another
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AprilPoWriMo 9
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AprilPoWriMo 8
Is it knowing
you already have
a personality
this thrumming
rhythm to your
circulation
that makes the
knees and elbows
or whatever
poking into your
mother’s side
somewhat endearing?
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AprilPoWriMo 7
Why not cloud
everywhere all at once
pitter patter of
discrete droplets
surfaces inundated
with individual waters
molecules searching
for spaces to gather
river to ocean
interrupted by
car windshields
wiping intermittently
aside potential
minuscule universes
to make way for
forecasted new ones
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AprilPoWriMo 6
Ground saturated
rain gone except for the clouds
pierced by tops of green
waiting for winter
to pass may take forever
no longer needed
bleakness is balanced
by what might be more bleakness
but for the instinct
created by everything
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AprilPoWriMo 5
What brings wholeness
to a broken brokenness
saying the right things
to the right people
at the right time
is one way not to
sometimes the questions
need to be questioned
without being reframed
to accommodate demands
broken out in the open
wholly beholden to our
low anthropology saying
grace at the same table
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AprilPoWriMo 4
Try to describe
the past’s heaviness
at some point you live
enough to recognize
all of it belongs there
each day resists
joining the herd
by running headlong
into traffic
the end is slowness
missing a turn
distracted by a song
that used to be playing
on the radio
the quiet of the present
is for remembering
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AprilPoWriMo 3
Is it possible
we now forget about
the latest atrocities
before they happen
just as the last
two years appear
as a gap on
an incessant timeline
perhaps the only
evidence we have
of the unspoken
become unspeakable
the images not even
obscured by content
warnings background
blurred by vision
unseeing what is unseen
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AprilPoWriMo 2
The wake up ghost
spent all night searching
for the next dream
out of the shadows
to stay under heavy eyelids
mind recognizing shapes
occasional stories
materializing from the ceiling
as if sleeplessness were
the prescription for existence
bearing down upon
the lightness of synapses
what if dreams were the way
whoever dreams us tries
to make sense of whatever
wakefulness appears to be
translating echo into image
like we do all day long
repeating the immediate past
attempts to find a moment
unmediated to ourselves
dreaming of silent sleep
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AprilPoWriMo 1
Why does the past return
as if about to happen
gusting through the trees
leaving budding branches
broken about to bloom
on the path to be brushed
aside like so much future
stilled by excess motion
frozen in its potential
since there is not enough
time to remember why
we live in forward even
waiting for the past
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MarPoWriMo 31
Today’s roadside sign
so modest as to be
completely missable
WOKE IS A JOKE
and I have to agree
I’d rather be sleeping
waking hours are pretty
ludicrous to be honest
Joshua Keiter 