contented to coast

Posted on May 31, 2024 by istsfor manity

behind your slipstream tanka

behind your slipstream
i draft—contented to coast
drawn and effortless
into a soft blue vortex—
rebuttal that never comes

What I’m Reading:

I prefer a theology of silence, the eschatology
of the shrug, a religion of holding my wife’s hand
for now.

— Bill Hicok / “The Call to Worship”

About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....

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