#fall higher

[mortalpractice]

Everlasting is comrade to this moment's flash; glance away, it's another day, you've lost one chance but here's another,

some cash, a sublet by the water; all this bother moving place to place, shifting syntax, anxiety attacks, the fights

and late-night make-ups, disgrace, mercy in the friend's face may make rich recollection lying on the deathbed or

seconds after a head-bonk ends it and from eternity's cracked-open lid that first pet the vet injected

while you held a paw and wept bounds forth as if from your own chest to greet you.

—Dean Young, from "This Evening from Far Away," Fall Higher

[ayate0]

Always they’re espousing accuracy when it’s accident, the arrow not in the aimed-for heart but throat that has the say. There are no transitions, only falls. - Lucifer (Dean Young)

[eve-anttevar]

Demons walk the earth. Says so on a T-shirt. We are born defenseless. It's a miracle.

Dean Young, from ‘Articles of Faith’

[eve-anttevar]

Maybe poems are made of breath, the way water cajoled to boil, says, This is my soul, freed.

Dean Young, excerpt of 'Scarecrow on Fire

[eve-anttevar]

...Always they're espousing accuracy when it's accident, the arrow not in the aimed-for heart but throat that has the say. There are no transitions, only falls.

Dean Young, excerpt of 'Lucifer'.

[awayohumanchild]

So rest my darling, my daring, the journey's almost over though I've gone nowhere and never meant to stay there

Teetering Lullaby; Dean Young

[awayohumanchild]

Well, screw you, to be sick of metaphor is to be sick of the otherness of life.

Non-apologia; Dean Young

[athousandbookstoread]

Is your heart made of fire but your mouth ash?

"Sleeping Aid"  (Fall Higher) by Dean Young