And sometimes I do anyway.
–the violet zoo
And sometimes I do anyway.
–the violet zoo
What then?
–the violet zoo
–the violet zoo
Mine are always pretty simple. I think the best ones are.
–the violet zoo
–the violet zoo
That title is an oxymoron, right?
–the violet zoo
–thevioletzoo
I should probably show more restraint and publish each poem to stand out on its own but this is all new and exciting and I simply couldn’t decide between these two short poems. I love short poems, and I mean really short, because they are typically the most poignant for me, they stay with me for a long time.
This first one was a line in a journal entry a few years ago and I happened to read it recently (not a practice I usually enjoy–reading my journal entries) and I couldn’t stop repeating it in my head. I simply grabbed it from its prose surroundings and shaped it into separate lines:
Why can’t you hear me
when I nod my head yes
in the dark?
The second poem was written recently and I will leave it to your own interpretation:
Your absence
is the only
present thing
about you.
–the violet zoo