Uh yeah, me too

7/29/2025

FLOATING — WE’VE BEEN FLOATING THROUGH PEAK SUMMER

FLOATING THROUGH RUINS — FOUND THIS SCRAP WHEN WE LOOKED INTO WHAT WE’VE BEEN WRITING

Prefer to be lost

This is not a dis
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IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO SEE SHANNON TAGGART PRESENT — GO

SEE YOU THERE NEXT YEAR?

There are no straight lines
7/27/2025, Con/Jur/d

Sitting zazen in the gazebo by the water
the teens appear, cell phones, 
fishing rods, SPIRITS
no longer embodied

in Africa, in a genocide
in a concert, in a music
soon, like in water, in

waiting for a jerk, a RIPPLE
than ALL IN, scales flashing
in light, focused, in body
heart thumping, chasing       GAZELLE 
long grass flattened by a herd

And we're thinking of the time
we told the TEACHER

he shouldn't say straighten your spine 
but ELONGATE, like the body workers
do, and feeling the curve, the WHITE
wooden slats against my back, the hint
of now ever present, but ignorable
discomfort,              they're just talking

QUIET INTIMATE

like only the young can do 
and they're talking about grieving
loss, eyes closed, can see their hands touching

the fishing gear, a promise deferred
and how the TEACHER might have said
there are no straight lines, we're on a ball

ROTATING 

at an angle traveling  as an ellipse
SPIRALING, forward to points unknown

even light gets bent
gravity comes 
in waves 

SWIRLING TWIRLING 

our eyes shoot open when we hear the plunk 
see the bobber bobbing UP/DOWN

on the rippled, lapping  WATER.

TO BE FAIR — WE DID SPEND 48 HOURS IN THE HOSPITAL — BUT RECEIVED A CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH

WE DON’T THINK THERE IS A TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS

WATER — TOILET — PAIN

BUT WE’RE FINE — WE’RE FINE — ARE’NT WE?

THE SILVERWARE WE BENT AT THE SPOON BENDING PARTY

RECOMMEND YOU DO IT — WITH A FRIEND

Much love,

Con/Jur/d, 7/29/2025