Today’s poem was collaboratively written (just this morning!) by Joel Nyland and Chris Martin. Joel wants you to know: “YOU CAN WRITE VOLUMES TOO!” VOLUMES Today is quiet and tomorrow is loud I SMELL THE DUST OF VOLUMES Purple, violet, lilac, and cream BOOKSHELVES SAGGING UNDER THEIR WEIGHT Ears like pink sinkholes SINKHOLES FULL OF WORDS Words full of dust DUST OF PREVIOUS LIVES Lives both quiet and loud DID THEY HAVE PINK EARS? Did they have red lips? OH MY WHAT WOULD RED LIPS HAVE SAID? Is smelling a kind of reading? MY DOG THINKS ITS THE BEST KIND OF READING Is kissing a kind of reading? PERHAPS FOR SOME VIRUSES Viruses write volumes, too IF YOU WERE A VIRUS WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE FIRST? I don’t know, but it would be almost silent WOULD IT BE A HOW TO AVOID VACCINES VOLUME? SILENT BUT LOUD It would be about clefts and nooks and folds AND PATHWAYS AND WASTE And ways to pray for the sneeze GESUNDHEIT!
Volumes
Volumes
Volumes
Today’s poem was collaboratively written (just this morning!) by Joel Nyland and Chris Martin. Joel wants you to know: “YOU CAN WRITE VOLUMES TOO!” VOLUMES Today is quiet and tomorrow is loud I SMELL THE DUST OF VOLUMES Purple, violet, lilac, and cream BOOKSHELVES SAGGING UNDER THEIR WEIGHT Ears like pink sinkholes SINKHOLES FULL OF WORDS Words full of dust DUST OF PREVIOUS LIVES Lives both quiet and loud DID THEY HAVE PINK EARS? Did they have red lips? OH MY WHAT WOULD RED LIPS HAVE SAID? Is smelling a kind of reading? MY DOG THINKS ITS THE BEST KIND OF READING Is kissing a kind of reading? PERHAPS FOR SOME VIRUSES Viruses write volumes, too IF YOU WERE A VIRUS WHAT WOULD YOU WRITE FIRST? I don’t know, but it would be almost silent WOULD IT BE A HOW TO AVOID VACCINES VOLUME? SILENT BUT LOUD It would be about clefts and nooks and folds AND PATHWAYS AND WASTE And ways to pray for the sneeze GESUNDHEIT!