By Amy Simone Piller
1.
I could eat chocolate all day today
I do other things instead
This may have been a poor decision
2.
When the list of things is gone
that must be in under a certain number
of minutes from now
What remains?
A desire to connect
on some inexplicable plane
would if I could reach out and touch
I want to be in the place
where you scream
because [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
You hold suns without end
racing through space
each to their own
families of planets
Absorbing what was
what is being present
acceptance slow breaths
in and out here this is it
No circumference known
center everywhere
Spinning still
I want to know
if the sun is only a star
how can I do right?
I stand before you
small
arrows in quiver
unsure if you will expand
to meet my meanderings
or [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Need we be boats
sails unfurled
in a glass container
without the sea?
Instead would you empty me
of all rebellion?
Make my breath fail
Make me wake
without desire
to a world without contours
no steps forward and look back
Intention powerless
only a concept
No words to do and undo me
as you please
Just please me
please?
What then?
In the ever after
when distances suddenly grow shorter
and the base of [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
We are tired
it is almost
the ever upcoming
when I notice
it still there
(like the windowsill plant
that flowers again sometimes
though no one took the time to explain
Flower, this is how
supposed to goes)
If no one told told the flower it were an annual
would it more likely bloom again?
If the sun stayed up
would it all get done?
It cannot simply be [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
For the first time this year
I see my breath
Smile a private smile
let it slow me down
Quiet moment externalized
Some things are not to be
kept in
States of being become
making moments unmissed
2.
Water surges beneath the street
small holes only
Man cover only a bad excuse
an unexplained this
Twisted smile
What is underneath?
3.
Among six apples for a crisp
only one peel emerges intact
One [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
1.
If it were only about balance
this would all be easier
When sadness got heavy
you would pour in more happy and
tada!
Instead seasons change
there is wind
and memory
2.
I notice on my bike sometimes
when cars stop short
a small tornado of leaves
It’s more like this
3.
Also though
you should know
if I were a leaf caught
I’d want you to be the biker
that [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Do raindrops know
they have landed in a puddle?
Do they ever discover
the ocean and hope?
Off in our own pools
Are we all waiting for a storm?
No trophy for staying put
At the beach I never stay
on the shore only toe in
All the way always
underwater wet
through and through
I want to melt
to have already
melted
How do we stay in spaces
on the [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
The bubbles in the coffee maker stall
like a computer screen
though the bubbles do not know
computers
The pulp of a lemon
floats down a glass
throttled by each sip
a wave
If only
I could gift you
a snow globe
of your own
you would hate it
World in world in world
we wander
***
Fall is here
leaves are like this
blowing into the house
I sweep them out
as if there [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Color seeps out slowly
disappearing across the valley
A sepia photograph undone
dark room development reversed
As you pass
security and sadness
envelops us who watch with hope
We pray for the story
to be more than this
Your face alights
in unexpected sunset
wafting wildflowers
you could have stopped to smell
It is enough
for a moment only
that something else could be
By Amy Simone Piller
Just below the surface
you only make yourself known
every so often
subtle spray of water
breathing
elusive turn
almost
so close
You remind me of all
I do not know
Mystery beneath
you play
teasing your tail
emerges
this is too much
But then you go
and all I want is you
to spout again
I sit on my safe coastline
watch and wait
wondering when to swim
If I make it past the sandbar
I [...]