justwrite 1 january

Happy new and in with the on and other prepositions we’ve got our suppositions and those are still flexible the next most correctible the easygoing views are useful in their armchairs and we can’t compare the quiet stares and the silent smiles the darknight miles that wait between leaning into poetry instead of onto facts we collapse everything we know and build up the snow the missing flakes the taken cakes and all the other bits we’re missing some pieces the puzzle’s got a muzzle and hardly can speak but the leak is cracked and the track has sprung a well the creek has no paddles and the idioms are restless passing another stress test isn’t in these cards at all but the cannonball caterwaul and all the king’s horses are filing for divorces as the rates of else run high and the pie that split the sky turns out to rain cherries the chariots of fire and other impossible dreams the races we stream live and in color over channels we can’t handle with the details easily failing us would you write the address clearly would you change your mission yearly and what will all the neighbors think what would you choose as an afternoon drink let me tell you the spell you’re wobbling under leaves plenty to plunder and seems a bit contagious the phenomenon outrageous but nonetheless I’ve paid this ticket price and I’m waiting for the show there’s a few bits left to go on ahead but instead of worrying I’m leaning back I’m keeping track of hydration and wondering on invitations I hope you’re not alone and I hope you’re keeping well the deep end the pretend the imaginings of tragedies and all the plot-go twists it’s all within the wrists but the fingers also help and if you can free yourself from that sort of a mold then the story to be told has a lot more to offer it’s a silver tray now proffered with engravings and the shavings of other sorts of previews but get used to that and you’ll skin no cats with proverbs it’s easily the reverb and the shy times the quiet crimes of honesty undone and the less than fortunate ones who are cleaning up the pieces the confetti as it releases into the sky the pop and surmise of an open-air adventure without which nothing gained and the naming of all games is just a step in the playing although there’s a better way to day-in stay-out of raw doubt and to play with open hands