#aaron fagan

[missedstations]

"Envoi" - Aaron Fagan

One must savor An inability To put certain Appetites into Words—my Shadow comes To look for me But not for long. Ignore the case Of paradise: A beast hiding In a cave Still feels The sunless rain.

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[thefungaldiscourses]

Aaron Fagan

[jeffalessandrelli]

With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One in particular that I’ve enjoyed is Aaron Fagan’s poetry collection A Better Place Is Hard to Find, out via the esteemed small press The Song Cave. The author of two well-regarded previous collections, Fagan’s new book deftly balances narrative poems with…Continue reading →

[snitnation]

Actaeon | Prelude

Aaron Fagan, Actaeon

[jeffalessandrelli]

Quandary--Aaron Fagan

You don’t have

To become one

With the universe

To become one

With the universe

You already are--

Breath, a portal

To the present

Doubt, a form

Of time travel--

Life runs parallax

To life, the heart

Carries artifacts

Of sound from

Another world

Where silence

And all possible

Outcomes bathe

In simultaneity

Searching for

Common repair--

This is why I am

Not me, the breath

Is not mine.

[heenbeans]

The Good Light; Aaron Fagan There were always such beautiful shadows in your work, Though many now dodge their taxes with your art. Rarely As it seems, life involves death with every decision, which is Why I miss the non-Euclidean idiom we used to argue over Everything in the dictionary of what not to do. Somewhere In a mix between Beaches and Häxan I have these weird Memories of you sleeping when there’s no way I was there To see you sleeping—a crystal ball above your bed lets Tensors, in a tension of tenses, tongue-tie time and divine Your urge to fearlessly abandon yourself to love as you Understand love, where paradox gives way to paradox And awareness is congratulated with awareness of how This multiverse, in vast tribulation, ushers us on in unison As one of many big bangs begins again to light the way.

[mshocklee]

a crystal ball above your bed lets / Tensors, in a tension of tenses, tongue-tie time and divine / Your urge to fearlessly abandon yourself to love as you / Understand love

from “The Good Light” by Aaron Fagan