- a way t o get b y
all those villages drowning
linking arms
as floodwaters rise
show me a way to get by
i need a way to get by
time is hung in a darkroom
your aching smile
- b y an ion
when you crawl to my side
you’re like a wounded bird
with your wings weighed down
you’re somehow smaller than you were
but all of it was real to me
’til you showed me
we were make-believe
why are we not accelerating
- c h a s m s
you were my favourite view
and then something changed
as things always do
we’re chasms at close range
surfaces not set in stone
but half-crystallized
a snapshot of snowswept ice
a fleeting disguise
- d e p t h c h a r g e s
i wish i could take it back
the way i left you then
i flooded the tanks and ran
phantasms at force ten
i dropped like a knife
for years i just scraped by
curled up
- d i v i n g b i r d
where low waters sing
is an animal king
whose anxious heart quiets itself
away from the cruelty of love
tracing contour lines
tracking black into white
running silent and
- h r a u n s v a t n
ghost
come match your shape to mine
a stone chained
as if it might fly
no prisms corroding
my sight
the blizzard of code
regret writes
- i n t h e g e t a way c a r
in the getaway car
i am guilty
but only of watching certainty fall apart
behind me
and picking up steam
where the fjords flank me
blocking signals
and pardoning crimes
- o x n a d a l u r
take me over your palace walls
my magic word
drifts high as my chest
my heartbeat melts a line
of helpless steps
deep
winters where the clocks crept
- w e w e r e never young
From every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold
the weight of what they heard
So fires crept through spaces long left soft & blurred
Notes slipped under the doors
frozen to the floor we believed everything
leaves blown beneath the eaves
whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings