When is the thing that is definitely a thing, not a thing?
When you’re in… THE MALL
All Hallows
— AE (Alicia Elsbeth) Stallings
The thin hands of the trees
Blow away, waving goodbye.
Haunted with similes
Is the house of memory—
The one who has departed,
The one who left you alone.
The bulbs are in their bed
Feeding on their meal of bone.
The jack-o'-lanterns bear
Brief, vegetable witness
As ghosts tap at the door
Still hungering after sweetness.
— AE (Alicia Elsbeth) Stallings
The thin hands of the trees
Blow away, waving goodbye.
Haunted with similes
Is the house of memory—
The one who has departed,
The one who left you alone.
The bulbs are in their bed
Feeding on their meal of bone.
The jack-o'-lanterns bear
Brief, vegetable witness
As ghosts tap at the door
Still hungering after sweetness.
FOR NOW
—Simon Ortiz
is everything beyond edgy
risk is risk is risk is risk sure
all but the smartest know that for now
tomorrow is tomorrow
the same way the era before now is
a common enough knowledge
for now for now and a day before
forever lesser or more sacred
a target locus we might figure out
take today or this evening or midnight
is it now yours or is it its own a day later
for now what to do but own it as ours for now
—Simon Ortiz
is everything beyond edgy
risk is risk is risk is risk sure
all but the smartest know that for now
tomorrow is tomorrow
the same way the era before now is
a common enough knowledge
for now for now and a day before
forever lesser or more sacred
a target locus we might figure out
take today or this evening or midnight
is it now yours or is it its own a day later
for now what to do but own it as ours for now
