journal-type entry (ugh!)

I'm tired of being scared shitless of the poems I'm not going to write, especially since the desire to write them hangs over me each time I think about poetry...

Too many posts I've made here would've been better journal entries than poems. A journal entry should be settled for, but not a poem. Or maybe my willingness to write and post onto the internet bad poems is a sign of strength, rather than weakness?

And here I am, posting a journal entry? Someone from my homeland, coming across the internet would say, "That young man ain't got no scruples, no sir."

fragment of a reflection

Found with waves that tore themselves from the shore I ran from that place and found the ends buried under a table that no one ever uses anymore - loose strands - the faintest trace of ancient air and a rope covered in stars severed from my hands long ago and barely able to wonder that far with eyes on knees on that gravel driveway - mouth asunder - but now to live somehow