#1

not all knowledge is meant for me.

the more you speak the more you dispel. technically

I could agree with anyone.

some quote from memory, some from oblivion, some from personal misfortune.

a whole character in her chin.

Machiavelli’s subsumption of all ethical values under the survival of the state.

kinship insufficient. a mammogram each year. descriptions differed.

recovery from air filled with spells.

notably but not exclusively. sour forms in the gut and a barely diffusible sadness.

obscure and without an echo.

a million first sentences.

#5

riotous laughter from the petals. participation of butterflies.

the gate swings open and closes.

ghosts are a method of planetary rupture.

through pause. its own existence. then the explosion.

through pause. its own flight. each moment agape.

knowledge coming into you unasked.

vitality a dying shape.

an original image boiled to its core.