Blurbs that need poems to hold them
1\.
Faithfulness ≠ love, it is just your ethics
Faithfulness ≠ love, it is just your ethics
2\.
\[... lived, …\]
once and many times
\[... lived, …\]
once and many times
3\.
Sodium peach light.
Sodium peach light.
4\.
I'll visit the dark underground
once I conquer the roaring sun
I'll visit the dark underground
once I conquer the roaring sun
\\The sieve poem (established spine):\\
How can I love
someone
when I arrive at a judgement
at the first pulse?
someone
when I arrive at a judgement
at the first pulse?
I look past the skin, the flag,
siphon the curation
through my sieve, my eyes.
siphon the curation
through my sieve, my eyes.
I carry my name like a tag,
my name doesn't hold me.
my name doesn't hold me.
\\Strongest standalone material:\\
You hold the dress up for me,
a dress you'd never afford,
and I'll buy but never wear.
The dress shines lonely..
a dress you'd never afford,
and I'll buy but never wear.
The dress shines lonely..
\\Sieve poem doughnuts (ranked):\\
A house with no books,
or worse — with only one.
or worse — with only one.
You flip burgers, like you flipped your dreams.
the heirloom diamond that endured nothing
carefully ripped jeans
torn blazer that saw decades
\\Other keepers:\\
Sleepy sheep sleeps / silently snoring solo.
we declare truce
I pick what I prefer.
pigeon, penguin, puffin (the full Paula bit — light, charming, might be a whole
small poem)
small poem)
I rode a bike and had goat cheese salad. / And craved peanut butter with my
steak / and had those too.
steak / and had those too.
\\Lines with potential but not there yet:\\
the brown bruise of a fuchsia
the ornate craft of a pawned clock
the floating hummingbird