Author Archives: meganporterpoetry

Lonely cow grazing in a field, soft sunshine on carpet grass, a whispered vow to the quiet breeze gently stirring fallen leaves. Hold down the fear that guides me to the shade

Daily chess puzzle 12-day streak a weak coffee with 4 sugars a 60s playlist the fear a rushed shower looking at screens a slave to backlit rectangles the regret a to-do list of social commentaries the shame the shame haphazard cleaning ignoring the things that should not cannot be ignored the hate I wish weContinue reading “Routine”

It’s all conforming to a meaning I don’t yet understand: the next song on shuffle, a response to an invocation to a music god (life is a song, praise Milil): an offshoot of pattern recognition How easily life lies! An exclamative sentence structure: broken down into syntactical fragments, will I finally see the words IContinue reading “Apophenia”

Hiding under the portrait of being seen, purpose sleeping in Endymion’s stasis bed, a million bitter agonies tightly held: life becomes a lesson in constantly letting go. it reminds me—— there is no taxonomical distinction between a frog and a toad; a toad is just a frog no one wants around

ever-assembling fractal light glinting over an artificial lake; I am spreading out too thin losing myself again