posts tagged "andrew michael roberts"

i woke without you and the igloo
seeming colder. i could peek
out the crawl-hole but if the entire
spinning earth’s imaginary i don’t want to know.
i have my pelts and visions
of you asleep in your summer skin loving
the deep heart of a tall grass prairie.
i have polar bears and snow
blindness. you have sunsets
striking the silent crows iridescent.
when they swoon to their own new beauty
and the chorus frogs kick in, do you think
of me thinking of you thinking of me?
i tell you what. if i had an albatross
i’d let it lift me like a message
to the jet stream just as the toothy flows
ingest our empty love-shell. you would know me
by the touch of ice on the tongue
of the wind. you would wait with a bouquet
of black feathers and the rest of
our story still warm on your lips.
-Andrew Michael Roberts, “the moments before the crash landing are clearest”

“it was the end of something, so we grew sad according to how much we’d loved it.”

from the end by Andrew Michael Roberts

we are not birds

this beautiful speed will be the end of us.
those are stars in our teeth.

-Andrew Michael Roberts