LR Young : Writing

Peacock

Peacock

A Poem by LR Young


playing with prose poems
Fences

Fences

A Poem by LR Young


I understand now the line I crossed that day, like a cuckoo bird who steals nests to push the other yolks out, I stole a string of words built for..
Vacancy

Vacancy

A Poem by LR Young


there is an appetite in warm weather, a desire to speak in just the right syllable, transcending the garrulous, to conjure and coax from the ribs..
Naranga

Naranga

A Poem by LR Young


I am, I am fullfilling short and long histories. All ties, where knots have confounded fingers, to loosen these white devotion ribbons, they s..
Eye Am

Eye Am

A Poem by LR Young


the things I would say if they were not heresies: (sucking out the stains I marked by finger tips, in coils to count seasons, the track of veins u..
R ' evolution

R \' evolution

A Poem by LR Young


i just read somewhere (maybe orion, an old copy, a story I had passed by that Erhlich had written) about the northern hemisphere shedding it's gla..
Firefy

Firefy

A Poem by LR Young


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to neruda when i should be sleeping

to neruda when i should be sleeping

A Poem by LR Young


In a Neruda sky, you are like a cloud. I remember one afternoon marveling at the colors aground of the green against the sky, the layers of p..
Lunula

Lunula

A Poem by LR Young


I suspect sometimes I have not lived enough: having the time of my life seemed foolish, so cautious with my vessel, that I must be careful ..
Shoshin

Shoshin

A Poem by LR Young


a beginner's mind, already mined of all its small silly Saturday attachments. The expected eggs like eyes, and half a biscuit buttered. The met..