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	<title>Deciduus</title>
	<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus</link>
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		<title>Past Tense and Present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It explains so much
when you turn, tense,
and speak of the past:
roads were hard to choose,
everything so made of concrete,
hard to breathe, so difficult to read.
Of course, of course:
people were so quick to declaim
against, hard to see, so inflexible,
everyone is too quick.
That was the past:
you admit it, shoulders and mouth
tense, and I will add, turning away,
what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/past-tense-and-present/</link>
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		<title>Math and grammar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the after
math of differential
events
equations of beginning
past tense and present
structural sentiments
to keep the language breathing
thin letters, strung on thinner
phonic wires:
integrity
hope
and
(always and)
a sense of you
float the space
between before
and begun&#8211;
a risk
worth making
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		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/math-and-grammar/</link>
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		<title>Instead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could say it was the
Christmas lights, but I&#8217;m not sure.
It could have been the songs.
The way you drove your car.
When I laughed into my mittens.
Just the stars in a winter night.
I wish I could say it was the
stars.
And yet I am half sure it was the
darkness &#8211; the unknown that stood
before and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/instead/</link>
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		<title>Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it ended
(just past midnight, if you&#8217;ve forgotten)
I couldn&#8217;t breathe to look at you
(which might&#8217;ve been because 
I lost my inhaler in someone&#8217;s car-
but maybe not)
Instead I closed my eyes
(to stave off the asthma I&#8217;m sure)
Turned my head 
And waited
(if you could call it waiting,
the three beats it took you to cross the room)
For your breath to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Love Past Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was past midnight,
I&#8217;m guessing you were a world away,
I&#8217;m not sure where, exactly,
Possibly the basin of a lake.
But there I was in a foreign state
Where, and you&#8217;ll find this strange,
They don&#8217;t believe in Daylight Savings.
(We love to save the light, oh we love it.)
Anyway. I was past midnight on a
Stretch of highway &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/love-past-midnight/</link>
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		<title>Old phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phones are&#8230;unconnected
disentangled
slim&#8211;
each ring a breath
through tiny speakers
without echo or depth
I want
(not mobility,
not convenience, but)
to wind my fingers
through the loops of a cord&#8211;
Get them so immersed in the coils
I lose seconds
thoughts
heartbeats
in twisting them free
Instead
I spend the time imagining
your own slim phone&#8211;
buzzing like mad on a table
in an empty room, or
in your hand&#8211;
the screen blinking up
into unresponsive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/old-phones/</link>
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		<title>Know Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I&#8217;m trying to say is
when I pick up the phone
I know you don&#8217;t know my
name enough to pick up
When you say no no no
that I am wrong
I know you don&#8217;t know
enough to know
Even now even now
when you say I am an island
how do you know?
you don&#8217;t know my name
When you say you understand
you&#8217;re the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/know-enough/</link>
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		<title>Pointless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ignore me then.
The one spark
that&#8217;s kept you moving this long
the breath in your blood
that blows through toward something
(anything) like redemption&#8211;
Go ahead
shove me away, box me up
as if I don&#8217;t exist or never did
as if my tears or this anger
don&#8217;t act as icebox and furnace
to your very core:
until you can&#8217;t breathe for the empathy.
I get it
you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/pointless/</link>
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		<title>Pointless Really</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so
in a moment of fear
in the face of love
you can slam on the brakes
you can turn off the lights
remain still, no crunch of gravel
so
when you see the flashlight
far off, too close
you can clench your fist
you can close your eyes
don&#8217;t breathe, no sound
so
as you protect yourself
from the face of love
you can lie by saying nothing
you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/pointless-really/</link>
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		<title>Collapse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched her shatter today
a train wreck sliding
in the gravel of a
broken smile
all bones and
multifaceted irises
of blue and black and green
but mostly blue
her lids blinking up
a regular tornado
as if we all wouldn&#8217;t notice
her glossy unfocused sheen
as long as she kept
her eyes dry and smiled
brighter than a supernova
but it was all pointless really
because behind it
behind her
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://andanything.com/deciduus/collapse/</link>
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