nicole reynolds - poems


the endurance of unreality


the endurance of unreality
cadences, but never truly ends.
my back is twisted and bent,
some accident when i was younger
and the blue sky says "i am good"
and the black sky says "i am a mystery"
and the gray sky says
"i'm going to rain so hard on you"
and my back aches
more intensely with the gray sky.
my bones or my muscles i'm not
sure, but something gets me.
we have a garden
we have a harvest
we have a clothes line
to dry our wet things
and we have a body
that takes us through the fields
and we can hear the sparrow call
and cry out our eyes
like a rainforest
and laugh out our
mouths like a storm
and sing from our guts
and bedrock
under our bones
bracing us for the
truth



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