• nothing more earth-shattering 
    than a recitation of your grocery list
    and the chores you’re avoiding
    by sending this message 
    
    -rjm
  • Ice land
    Orange and yellow
    Crossed black and white
    Paper birds made of flesh and bone
    Hollow and impossible
    Will spend life above turmoil
    With a sun that never says goodnight
    Ash and lava and basalt
    Rivers of rock flowing to the sea
    Pyroclastic
    Can you feel me lurking below
    My fire and life growing to threshold
    Flesh and bone crushed against the earth
    I am desperate for the sunlight now
    
    -rjm