Remember

back to basics
run, jump,
feel the wind between your fingers
and the grass beneath your feet

breath in
the sweet air, 
earth's nectar streaming out
of the tapped veins of life

sit and stay
in the shade,
feel the earth's beating heart
we too are her children

emmett

VT

19 years old

More by emmett

  • By emmett

    Alphabet Fruit

    see this world fold into the next

    dog-eared mountaintops

    shaded spine valley

    page as unending, unheeding landscape

    rich fertile soil bearing alphabet fruit

    picked, eaten, digested, divulged
  • By emmett

    computer screen

    moonlight river 
    celestial serenade 
    greedy corpses dance between starlit rooftops
    footfall silence of aching movement
    cruel patter of rain and disease
    mind like body like tool
    cruel in kind places
  • By emmett

    What's Left Behind


                shadows
    in the shape of a person
                falling to the tenderness 
    of bruised knees

                tears just