This list is everything I ever dreamed of
This list is blue ink on thick yellow paper
This list is her tiny hand in mine
This list is milk and honey
This list is fast asleep
This list is like glass fragile and tender
This list is one of loss
This list is one of becoming
This list is both fast and slow
This list is the truth but it will never become real
This list has no beginning and no end
This list is time
This list is chasing Rabbit and finding the Queen of Hearts
This list is her voice sweetly singing
This list is Wonderland
This list is Earth and heaven
This list is mine and hers
This list is sugar slowly melting on our tongues
This list shines like stars
This list disappears in the dark
This list is unknown
This list is ours
This list is hypnotic
This list is drugged and happy
This list is as sober as her
This list is a thimble full of poison
This list is the antidote
This list may never end
This list is not a poem.
I love "this list is one of loss. / This list is one of becoming." That is the journey, for sure. And the thimble full of poison and its antidote is very clever.
ReplyDeleteI love your list, Jae, that it ‘is like glass fragile and tender’ and ‘has no beginning and no end’. I especially love that it is ‘chasing Rabbit and finding the Queen of Hearts’ and ‘sugar slowly melting on our tongues’.
ReplyDeleteIt may not be a poem, but the items read very poetically. After so many years of practising your craft, I'm sure it could not be otherwise!
ReplyDeleteSo much of our lives are list orientated. Your poem is so full the person you are and happy to live as, especially as your writing is so clearly so beneficial to you.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you: Lists are not poems!
ReplyDeleteYour list rocks.
ReplyDeleteI love your list-that's-not-a-poem....every bit of it!
ReplyDeleteThis list is entertaining. :)
ReplyDelete"This list is a thimble full of poison
ReplyDeleteThis list is the antidote" Like life - the good and the bad make up our living and like this line "This list is her voice sweetly singing" you are sweetly singing it to us.