How We Met

we were two
bodies just floating in our own
space our own rectangles and we somehow
collided and
when we did
it all began again

poem by Eden Gaiski
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Autumn

I can touch
the ground
I can feel
the world moving
beneath me
I can feel myself rising
again and I can hear
the words that the wind
is telling me
in my sleep
I can see her sometimes
and now
I am here to find her

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The Things I Carry

One pair of feet pointed directly toward the door and
A mind that doesn't know where to begin or how to
Finish anything. Really
I've got
This thirst I can quench only for a few days at a time when
I can write something down and as
I do I can
Feel every part of myself
Fall into place it's like, I swear it was just like
Every autumn I spent napping with my father before we laid him down in
Lake Michigan to rest the world felt so much
More in tune with his harmony to bring up the pitch and
I need the world to know who gave me these eyes
This laugh and these jointy legs are not mine they are
My father's;

Sometimes I live up in the air and rejoice with all
The world's choruses and
Sometimes I live down low for such

empty things

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poem by Eden Gaiski
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