Authorized enemies have
long lingered at the edge,
familiar in silhouette,
their names etched delicately
into the corners of your silence.
Their passing ghosts called your name
as you danced through the day,
light-footed over each of your buried regrets,
the darkness of your shadow forgotten in motion.
All the photos you didn’t take
hang in the air like prayers
for moments too sacred to capture—
atoned, but never erased.
Breathing through the stillness
of your lonely chapters,
you clutch the pulse of what remains,
and though the world shifts beneath you,
at long last—the core of your being
pierces the grand illusion.
~Eric Vance Walton~
Be well and make the most of this day.
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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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