UNTITLED
BY MATTHEW SPENCER
how does a fly get to be what it does?
spent my whole life sortin’ thru this kind of fuzz
a dandelion of dreams floating thru infinite screams
underwater naps calming all these habituated schemes
i want the joy back that they all stole from me
i want my great-great-great-gramama’s recipes
i want to love hard but they made love hard
cut it all up with broken mirror shards
gift of god was the name i was given
but the gods i know never keep shit hidden
they let you grow and let you show
and let your blood and life force flow
i’m pretty sure that there’s a ladder near
and a herd of roaming fallow deer
and up high in that desert the fog catchers wait
to collect the water we all create
come drink with us in this comfy nest
old ones young ones it’s time to rest
Matthew Spencer likes to body surf, write poems sometimes, and currently lives in Decatur, Georgia.