Works that I featured as Daily Deviations during my time as a volunteer and staff member.
letting go by Anthony-Ryan, literature
Literature
letting go
in the cathedral of your arching heart let me fall silent . the same wave crashes over and over wishing it could stop . your favorite tree holds a continuous star the sun can't scrub out . a bowed viola reaches from your heart to mine and back always back . i spent so long here amid songs yet to be sung where nothing belonged . i hold you with care inside the utter center where my young self rests . nondominant now my pen in the other hand the letters all new . i must say goodbye my heart still sings despite it i must say goodbye
The road is blue-lipped with cold.
One hour’s drive to type
officious little documents
for eight hours, then
another hour back, and again
again the next day
the filling and unfilling
of holes in the sand
I am so small and mean-hearted.
Winter casts its iron gaze
over everything
I can see.
People want to be doctors,
or lawyers, or gardeners,
or travelers or lovers or loved I have only
ever wanted to be
home, tucked away
like a secret, like a flower
pressed in the family bible.
And there’s no such thing as a soul,
the high white towers of god
are empty and chilled with drafts,
but still
the birds eddy in an