poem – Page 8 – Jordyn Saelor

Pi

I love you . To infinity and beyond, am I right? Like a circle ever going round, There is no end to our future. We could chase the sun set and rise, eat it like an orange and spill the glow between our teeth at midnight, a night light to remind this bed and starsContinue reading “Pi”

Aquatic Speech

If we grew up underwater, accustomed to salt in our cuts, would hurts to our emotions hurt less by comparison? With each reverbing thrum of all aquatic speech, would we feel the meaning of each other’s words closer to our ribs? In the twilight ocean, would we use our eyes less to guess each other’sContinue reading “Aquatic Speech”

52 (4 years later)

It’s never so simple as a tower of cards crumbling like memories, good or bad divided by battle lines.

riven/rend

nail open sponge crust expose soft secret magma lava leaks like blood *** find my first published book at this link find other stories I’ve written here

from one depressed poet to another

So many of my metaphors attempt to describe the ocean of sadness in me, as if to a neighboring world with no water. I am Earth; you are Mars;

Frogs in the water part 2/God in a bottle

God in a bottle, with a scroll from far away, telling me what to do. Surrender to a continental divide, take me left or ride from ocean to ocean, soak it in, this is to teach you obedience, give up your resistance, heed the message in the bottle or fall full throttle from mountain high.Continue reading “Frogs in the water part 2/God in a bottle”

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Pi

Aquatic Speech

52 (4 years later)

riven/rend

from one depressed poet to another

Frogs in the water part 2/God in a bottle

Silly humility/frogs in the water

Generative AI

I’m comin’ like a stormwall