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Shhhh
Shhhh
Sitting in silence as the red sky ripens Nearby a woodpecker already labors Shhhh The time is not yet for infant eyes Now the wrens join…
Jake
Mar 22
I turned 29 today.
I turned 29 today.
It feels funny how the years already slip by now. From what I hear it only gets more strange and slippery as we go.
Jake
May 20, 2022
My Pleasure
My Pleasure
I always said I would never live far enough north that it required me to get up before the sun in order to scrape ice off my windshield…
Jake
Jan 30, 2021
XX
XX
Her home was the sea and His love had never known the waves Each day an encore performance Of a long gone tragedy
Jake
Aug 30, 2020
XVIII
XVIII
Inked lines permanent Grounded knees repentant
Jake
Aug 28, 2020
XVI
XVI
My memoir will be filled with laughing friends and freight trains each known for crashing through still nights and leaving faint memories…
Jake
Aug 27, 2020
XV
XV
I’ve visited terrible places before hell holes down to the tiniest detail I’ve been there, but to me those places are foreign Have you been…
Jake
Aug 17, 2020
Songbird Shriek
Songbird Shriek
Birdsong kills off dawn’s silent approach but its beauty justifies the crime in fact pleasant enough to be worth suffering this morning…
Jake
Aug 16, 2020
XIII
XIII
Courage comes in crowds This side of the city. Are tiny bits truly enough To feed the least of us?
Jake
Aug 5, 2020
XI
XI
He was a child of the wildwood And came from the Wise-men Beneath those treetops colors spoke And low hanging fog breathed heavy
Jake
Jul 21, 2020
Burns
Burns
I like the way this coffee burns my tongue at least it’s a tangible pain I can articulate what hurts
Jake
Jul 20, 2020
Bound
Bound
bound like a worn book
Jake
Jul 19, 2020
Pitter-Patter
Pitter-Patter
raindrops speak in a tongue I comprehend pitter-patter
Jake
Apr 28, 2020
X
X
that time of year is always here time for making so goes our lives
Jake
Apr 9, 2020
VII
VII
I don’t quite remember the last day my lips went without a hint of whiskey. The tender tinge of vanilla wrapped clove, caramel staining my…
Jake
Apr 7, 2020
V
V
If love ever did speak She whispered in my direction All incomprehensible In tongues
Jake
Apr 6, 2020
Pour
Pour
Not yet. Don’t you dare. I swear, you will regret this. “Pour me another.”
Jake
Mar 5, 2020
Legendary
Legendary
it was a legendary love the kind to make satan shake and poets shiver in delight
Jake
Mar 4, 2020
II
II
There it is still off a ways but no more than a town or two away. With the day’s last crimson rays at my back I can just make out the faint…
Jake
Feb 20, 2020
I
I
And it’s those days those long gone that speak age old truths
Jake
Feb 19, 2020
A Cup
A Cup
of all the things I wanted to be growing up I never considered a cup, but the way you hold yours press it to your lips never let it out…
Jake
Sep 4, 2019
Simplify.
Simplify.
The first part of the year saw me consciously focus on the concept of simplification in my life.
Jake
May 1, 2019
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