Then Squalls and Arrows

by Atsushi Ikeda

Coming up for the constant air
Where words dry into
A stratosphere of leaves

Another morning like a weed
Would this fifth winter, no water
In the bowl, mail for all
Who’ve stopped living here.

My snow-flower politely crumpled
Arises when I have no words
For this afternoon. I go and change

The water. I stretch in sunlight,
Ponder irregularity, do nothing
About it as always. I sit down
To think and die in a squall

Of your lazy touch, trying to
Address all this time in you
Dormant, somehow invincible.

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Atsushi Ikeda ( @ah_daradara) is playing in Australia.

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