I think about the word: TENDER And its meaningsHe told me I was so tender. Tender meaning easily to bruise? Meaning soft to the touch?Meaning perfection to taste? Meaning juicy,Or close to bloody. Tender . . .Did he mean tinder?Like when I saw him on TinderLike when I saw someone who might’ve been posing as …
and maybe they’ve had enough; and maybe the ship will finally sinkand maybe the controversy will be settled and maybe the rendering will be palpable and maybe the reckoning will be gloriousand maybe the divide will be bridged with glory and maybe the flashes will be fragmentsand maybe the center will not holdand maybe the …
Any way you look at it, it seems the world isburning, that it is going up in flames, and it is. Icannot unsee the ways we are awful to one another,devouring one another in hatred, letting the thingenvelope us, blind us, and no making, no creating, nofever dream will help; friends do, and generosity,goodness even—not …