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Look At a City

Posted by Andy on Jan 30, 2010 with No Comments
in poetry

I wrote this poem while I was asleep. (No kidding)


Look at a city
with all its
human complexity.

Then look at
snowflakes falling,
all so
intricate.

Now watch
the city melt
in the warmth
of your hand.

How Can Your Hand, So Little

Posted by Andy on Nov 28, 2009 with No Comments
in poetry

How did you get the stars

which

yesterday hung-up

in a loose night sky,

reclusive,                remote,                removed,

today

to join

in constellations?

How did you get the humid wind

that last night

carried only mosquitoes

to leave its rain outdoors

and breeze its way

past curtains and cradle

just to butterfly

your skin with kisses?

How can your body,

so tiny,

fill up

so much of our house?

And with muscles too weak

to hold up your own head

make an ocean-liner wake

I will follow

the rest of my life?

How can your hand,

so little,

hold

so much

of me?

(written 9/10/97, for my daughter, Kaia)

Time Carnivorous

Posted by Andy on Nov 28, 2009 with No Comments
in poetry

Time carnivorous never ceases licking lips,
Biting away at me
it rips
me off
bit by bit,
thought by thought,
in chore and bore.
Tomorrow slithers by,
drooling over today’s mistakes,
gorging on yesterday’s ideals.
Feeding in frenzy
sucking sweet seconds
milking my marrow.
If I don’t watch it,
it’ll gut me.
If I do,
it’ll drain me.
Now
I’m telling time:
“Go swallow your own tail
and get off mine!”
Once and for all,
As far [...]

Water baby

Posted by Andy on Sep 27, 2009 with No Comments
in funny, poetry

Landing

Posted by Andy on Sep 16, 2009 with No Comments
in photography, poetry

Done with Bryce and Photoshop.