a haiku on being authentic
Author Archives: Sandy Knight
Denial
Emptiness crowds into crevices once overflowing with you — all I know of love, what it could be, how it rises and falls Secreting the blade and hilt behind its back while it parries and thrusts leaving gashes silky as red ribbons, upon my soul, all of it I learned from you. Truth, staid andContinue reading “Denial”
Daydreaming of Travel During a Global Pandemic
Memories of past travel adventures might be our best refuge during critical quarantine hours. Boredom, anxiety, fear. This is not the ideal cocktail of emotions we want to be sipping when it comes to getting comfortable with Covid-19 quarantine. This particular cocktail doesn’t come with a straw, or a colorful umbrella, nor is it servedContinue reading “Daydreaming of Travel During a Global Pandemic”
Mercy
As dawn breaks over another day of uncertainty silent comes the moth unbidden from the cornered shadows of my bedroom frantic wings flee the dark. I see not an intruder but a fateful refugee perhaps sent to probe the virtuous nature of a heart flush with fortune. I cup my hands gently around the winged creatureContinue reading “Mercy”
No Fear For The Day
No fear for the time when our sun is vacant from the sky no fear for the day when the button’s pushed that will annihilate because you’re here with me tonight and all I’ve wished for in this moment can’t be more than I have now… No fear for the day when I forget yourContinue reading “No Fear For The Day”
The Verisimilitudes of Fools
The Verisimilitudes of Fools Whose court jester are you? Stricken by catastrophe impoverished, our hearts hunger, though small imaginations flounder beside the appearance of truth. Blinded by the allure of false reason, the sacred becomes obscured apathy takes its turn on the wheel driving fevered dreams over fallow fields harvesting nothing but the dying chorus ofContinue reading “The Verisimilitudes of Fools”
A Mixtape is Forever
“Alexa, play George Winston.” Why make a mixtape when you can simply order your smart hub to play anything you want, any time of the day or night? I’ll tell you why. Because, though a smart hub is cool and convenient, it will never be as amazing as a mixtape. Screw the Cloud, make a mixtapeContinue reading “A Mixtape is Forever”
You will not be trusted
Photo by Daniel van den Berg on Unsplash You will not be trusted The gilded heart of a poet historically rife with treacherous romantic notions spilling blood colored secrets onto pages whipping hearts into frenzied gasps and hand-wringing rages from towers on high Oh how you deceive us for the sake of what — Truth? which isContinue reading “You will not be trusted”
Lego My Manhood
Play well. Play fair. In the florescent light of the toy lab two men huddle over a memo sent down from upstairs… “I don’t know what’s wrong with the original primary colors, Johnson. I mean, isn’t this how the old Dane designed them? It’s written right here in the Britannica.” The man in the brilliantContinue reading “Lego My Manhood”
Ordinary Things
I found her in the folding and unfolding of a fitted sheet sharp corners gathered then disguised in the elastic roundness of time her life will never be something I can neatly put away nor would I try — I need to hold it up to the light spread my arms wide then tuck itContinue reading “Ordinary Things”
