i_searched_my_notes_for_the_word_rain warmthofrelease trapped in the last frontier everything we need to know is here it'll be the call to the cradle from_beyond_the_grave it'll be the steady_rain it'll all be the same someday coming sooner_than_I_could explain (May 2015) still more hung up on the women I rejected than the women who rejected me I want to give a toast to the easily discouraged but I don't want to drink let me spell it out for you: everybody's ink curls and dissipates eventually from tattoos to typewriters once_in_a_lifetime is a fair frequency often_enough_to_barely_mean_anything so what you do or you don't only matters as much as what you make it out to be blow it out of proportion and_shape_your_own_destiny but don't get upset if it can't or it won't become intertwined with mine and me the stars have their own design no patterns no recipe there's no_way_of_knowing because there's no_way_to_see and if we saw we wouldn't understand to know is not what we were meant to be don't eat the apple I know you can't put it back on the tree but crush it into decomposition and bury the seeds walk_away_and_let_it_grow rest in peace everyone let go of your brain it's as good a time as any to start over don't chase the end and don't run from it just be_prepared it will let you know when there_is_a_time_for_all_things because_time_is_not_anything (January 2019) if my brain could cry on its own then my eyes would be worth less than the coins at the bottom of a fountain spent wishes cast_out_into_the_void_of_wait_and_see waiting to see (January 2017) 250826 ... ovenbird There are so many beautiful images in your writing. And it occurred to me that the prompts you created here could make a poem of their own. They almost work if you just read all of them in order actually! (Which is fascinating) But here's another possible iteration: steady_rain from_beyond_the_grave walk_away_and_let_it_grow and_shape_your_own_destiny (no_way_of_knowing no_way_to_see) be_prepared there_is_a_time_for_all_things 250826 ... releaseofwarmth that's kind of you to say. my linking comes to me much like my words. it happens consciously but also naturally. and I try to choose quality over quantity, if I strung together every little phrase into a link it wouldn't be artistic it would just be wikipedia. each one is very intentional, they each mean something as a title and carry the potential to mean something as their own blathes. so it does make some sense that they can be recontextualized and form their own ideas because in a way that's the point. but it still does feel nice to be noticed. 250826 what's it to you? who go blather from