Tuesday, January 28, 2025

a game of inches

 

I’m no snowier now the mountains

grow between my shoulders

I carry a crying mountain

kiss his cheek

the bellowing expanse

between his sleep

my nerves a rockfall

sweeping cracks

and chimneys

on the face I’m no snowier

than when i froze

seeing a mountain born

his tiny voice

a facsimile of meadows 

and grinding stones

I’m the same

sheep home

the place where trees stop

and marvel

at how little has changed

this century

2 comments:

  1. If every dad, every parent wrote poetry, I swear we would not be in this shit. Beautiful.

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  2. would be a beautiful children’s book <3

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