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Burrowed Gnome
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Burrowed Gnome

Holding Fast

stumbling through a wake up
coffee yet set in
fuzz of morning recovery 
from whatever did

run over my poor body
flattened to the core
remainder gathers quickly
recollect, repeat: feels a bore

i don’t know why it’s quiet
inside this great green vale
the future promises wild
long and twisted messy tale

the fog of waking early
the fog of waking late
time seems a gross uncertainty
it’s hard to pin a name

as if the tunnel collapse
yet no rock fall above
end to entrance rushing
between two hands been shoved

pressed to almost nothing
a mile down a foot
one step as many thousands
old cycle ends in soot

and fertilizes the ground
basic space recharged
the only way of knowing
by sinking this filthy barge

a vehicle of necessity
not one of grace or speed
a shamble of continuity
confused and led by need

perceived by wanton grasping
convinced desire to drive
to be, become a lasting me 
for this I will strive

to bolster what feels present
this array of sense in flesh
consolidate volition
oddly soft and less

that what I want is permanent
cozy stable home
driven burrowed resister
a hardened, dug-in gnome

digging, grinding, blocking
building this weakest fort
to hide from what’s around
dark fears my needs do court

when it serves the grasping,
this fragile flesh in hand
instead of watching stars
with certainty there will land

a cosmic breadth together
unleashes this wild steed
to run the fields of loving
growing evermore kind in deed

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