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  • The Spring

    July 6th, 2021

    before your son leaves for college
    take him for a walk along the beach.

    Stay by his side without holding his
    hand. As you avoid drift woods

    and tides and fly-clouded corpses, drift
    away and let his pace outpace yours.

    Step in his footprints. Notice that his
    feet have outgrown yours. Notice that

    your stride can match his stride.
    Notice that it’s not worth the effort.

  • It’s Their Cheese

    January 20th, 2021

    Certainly, O Dark-Souled Dane, a hintish
    tickle of rank and foetid currents

    weeping beneath your kingdom’s feet, but have
    you, Unsettled Prince, sensed what stirs

    across the ocean? A waft of acrid faith
    twined with sourful pride beneath a haze

    of festerous free, towering rot. Not some
    thing, but many. Many things.

  • Heresy Ball on the Bathroom Rug

    June 16th, 2020

    Look askance, all you
    want, at a people who
    draped their cats as
    queens, in gold and lapis
    and jasper and jade,

    or shaved their eyebrows
    in lamenting grief when
    their whiskered royals
    sauntered through Duat to
    bask beneath Ra’s passing,

    but have you, a lap
    among a sea of laps, ever
    been so richly blessed by
    an ambivalent god brushing
    against your shins?

  • COVID-19 Is the Same but…Different

    May 26th, 2020

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    COVID-19 Is the Same but…Different @probablytomfoolery @constellation_dreamers #challengehumanity

    A post shared by Jared (@frivolousquill) on May 26, 2020 at 5:56pm PDT

  • Stalker

    April 11th, 2020

    Billy Collins doesn’t
    have a Twitter account so

    you’ll have to follow him
    more craftily. Not

    in his footsteps, but
    slightly to the right or

    farly to the left, or
    with binoculars as he

    serpentines through an alpine
    pass, hoping you never find

    the map he left crumpled
    beneath the coffee grounds.

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