on spring afternoons
he would watch the sky
& dream of all the things
he couldn't do
like swimming &
running & flying & singing
but he could still dream
#vss365#swim#poem#art#drawing
they captured him
& took him to a foreign land,
imprisoned him in an empty yard
behind a frail fence he couldn't cross
& put him on display
for indifferent passersby
#vss365#art#yard#drawing#cartoon#poem
the siblings grew up together,
standing side-by-side
at the top of a hill
& watching the landscape
spread out below them
#vss365#siblings#art#poem#drawing
to escape the stuffy & outsized concerns of the city, i fled into nature & spent the afternoon beneath the boughs of a silent tree
#vss365#stuffy#art#drawing
upon reflection
his life appeared
as a picaresque
full of capers
& adventures
& wondrous journeys.
but at the end
the things he cherished
the most
were the still quiet moments
#picaresque#vss365
38 #ghoststory
beside reynolds sat a misty & diaphanous woman clothed in grey. she was a ghost & reynolds was reading aloud to her. gus recognized her as the woman from reynolds' photo & gus understood
#vsshorror