silver
nomme) argent
airgead
argentum
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jane if you look up you'll see me moon bound -
beyond powers of ten
or other powers nature holds
tightly coiled in silver wires, which, soundless

twist around your wrists & leave bold marks.
hear this, you undefeated silver soul - the wind
blows straight & strong, thought death-cold

to touch. are you convinced by this to spend
your years to spread the news of passing doom
without reminding ears of the coming of the end?

you will know this - when light holds rooms
aglow with dropsy fingers, when shining
silver presses into resting love's cocoon,
i'll lay upon the slithering scales of time
resounding thoughts from passing aching tires,
bumping over earthly stones as rickety silver dimes

when silver greens & rusts, it lives on
again, oblivious to Death or scales or love--
that they are ever spoons, ever vampires

jumping from corner to wall, feathers above
shining clams like shoulders made of magnifying glass
flinching, then ceasing more to move.

your heart still stumbles into past
for memories dark & twisting silver
sliding over its own forgotten carcass

onto mine, halfway now to jealous Jupiter's
immortal bearings. you'll pass on news until ears pound
like hearts themselves, arriving from the atmosphere
& only then you glance to passing silver skies.
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cocoon I always preferred it to gold 090722
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tender_square he referenced caribou in his not-so-fictitious narrative. the couple bonded over the underwater stereo-channel switching dream vocals of dan snaith. the male protagonist looked back on their relationship and love of that track with a sense of premonition: "we never knew it was a break-up song," he said. a detail like that, about a song we played during our wedding reception, is what slices me to the core: not once did i ever think in our beginning, in all the good years we shared, that we would ever end. 230227
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