SEEDLINGS
︎︎︎ Adam Stutz
︎ Jan 16, 2023
Open the page of the morning + assemble the cross-stitch
of a tear + confusion bless the diagonal line emanating
across floorboards + the levitation of dust bless this limit line
fading into the walls
open the trembling dissolve into quiet + carry a multitude of nuisances
into the bloodstream apparatuses of broken concentrations
(call them other splinters) fragments to press into clay/clutter
This parlance of ataxia + wavering tongues— call it aspiration—creates
space for fire poems + giddy disasters I could pathologize to-go order
minutiae pressed into the dregs of scraps + dishes + weep quietly into
the pressure of our saturnine surroundings (a slow melt)
Holy broad-brush w/ too much ink we should light up these bottles
to dance we should take the tender dissection of our ashes
to cultivate more conviction in seedlings
our inanities only reveal our nervous gravity keeping us dear
of a tear + confusion bless the diagonal line emanating
across floorboards + the levitation of dust bless this limit line
fading into the walls
open the trembling dissolve into quiet + carry a multitude of nuisances
into the bloodstream apparatuses of broken concentrations
(call them other splinters) fragments to press into clay/clutter
This parlance of ataxia + wavering tongues— call it aspiration—creates
space for fire poems + giddy disasters I could pathologize to-go order
minutiae pressed into the dregs of scraps + dishes + weep quietly into
the pressure of our saturnine surroundings (a slow melt)
Holy broad-brush w/ too much ink we should light up these bottles
to dance we should take the tender dissection of our ashes
to cultivate more conviction in seedlings
our inanities only reveal our nervous gravity keeping us dear
Adam Stutz is the author of Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017) and The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018). His work has appeared in The Equalizer: Second Series, The Cultural Society, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Prelude, Be About It, Deluge, Dum Dum Zine, The Pinch, Where is the River, Dream Pop, Cover, Ghost Proposal, Columba Poetry, Only Good Poems, INKSOUNDS, The Racket, and can also be found at stutzwrites.com. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.