Circular

Comets outside my window
seem to circle and then connect.
I have hopes
to connect back at
you know
where time ends
and circle back.
I wish
in some ways
that I didn't get it
or
that I got it absolutely.
No in-betweens.

12/15/2016
Riley Welch

Quiche

Quick little
short
now
I think
no
I don't know
sorry, don't forget me.
Or, they. Not.
Thing and slow and swirly.

There's spinach stuck between my back two teeth.

12/15/2016
Riley Welch

Whatever

I had some idea
for a great piece of
writing
but, I lost it
or forgot it
or
whatever.

12/15/2016
Riley Welch

FHS2

A part, so centered
so well, split
torn up the valley
or down the middle.

12/15/2016
Riley Welch

Sing-Song

How do I lay it all out.

Like lyrics on a page.

The chorus is always what catches me.

How to repeat it

over and over

in rhythm anyone could sing.

12/13/2016
Riley Welch

Screwed Up

A scab healed over
my burned knuckle.
This brought both
relief from the tenderness
and a slight itch.
The latter was quite uncomfortable
but,
it meant that it was not infected
which I was thankful for.
It was a careless injury.
A knuckle pressed to a hot pan
a slip.
My brain couldn't react fast enough.
Too, too bad.

12/13/2016
Riley Welch

Hopeful, just yet

The 13th,
I'm thinking of it
with some fondness
the morning is fresh
so I have all the hours
to do with it
what I want.


12/13/2016
Riley Welch

Blank

I feel much better
which might be shitty
but I don't think I care.

12/12/2016
Riley Welch

Champion

When you move place to place
you stay light and quick
get rid of what you don't need
keep what you do.

Everything I own fits in my car.

I can sleep anywhere if I need to.

The longer you stay,
the heavier you get.
Your things sink into the ground your house grows on
and the roots lock in as deep as they can hold.

18 years seems so long to then rip the bandaid.
I have friends who have lived in the same house their whole life.

I've got a few constants.
They feel like comfort.

I can never find light switches in unfamiliar bathrooms.
I find myself zombie walking in the dark.

I wonder if some day I'll let the sand settle down into cracks.
Grow heavy, sink.

I can't imagine keeping myself in one place for more than 6 years.

But I'm sure I'll lose track of time eventually.

1/9/2017

Wow.

Wow
love bubbles
it always bubbles
I think of emotion
as a pot heats up.
I wonder what a boil over signifies.

12/12/2016
Riley Welch

12:02 am

I decided I was done.
So I am.
Finish up.

12/11/2016
Riley Welch

Room 1302

Motivation is easy for,
date at night
my brain is a tank
and I am an idiot

held full

submarine is a word
that makes perfect sense

I love the overlap of language.

I've got blisters and dreams

catch me, but I don't think you can.

12/11/2016
Riley Welch

Up

I'm sorry
because you're a good notebook
but I feel sort of
stuck in you

I need to write
again and again

to get over it.

Out of it

Move to
another

a new.

Something fresh and

soon.

12/10/16
Riley Welch