09/08/2010
INCURSION DIALOGUE
Months tumble slow & we'll leave these days behind us; we'll gladly forget all the people we've been. There's somewhere we're going
& the streets that we follow are slick with rain. It's always night when I lose my way. I try my damndest to smile even three more times,
try to believe in myself, but I don't know which hand to put the sun in. I'm stuffed full of clouds & I'm barely holding on. Excuses float by me, words
fading off in the heat. Seasons drift through me. You tell me reprieve or you tell me deceive. I can't pick either one & be right with myself.
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WE'RE MAKING MISTAKES TOGETHER
Forget all your dreams since they're forgetting about you. They pretend that you're capable, or better than you are. You wake up much worse-
wrecked in the morning with birds in that light. That light promises a whole new landscape but don't believe it! Hold tight to the failures that fill up
your outline like a cloud silhouette made out of anger. Stacks of paper were shuffled & machine-mangled while you slept through the mist. Find the lost page
that fits in, that helps it make sense: a signature needed or else the parcel rejected. Let me sing a few more of these ruins to you. The starting
is over & we're both living still. Stand up if you can because I'm talking to you & the whispers assail my affections again. Look: even things that evade me
still lodge in my cosmos & the stars that I'm thinking shoot themselves out. Here's where I write another line about galaxies because it'll sound like I've got science
to back me up. I'll use the word orbit but maybe mean plunge then I'll talk about heaven & mean something less. My circling degrades & leads me to you & we both
know better but seem not to care. Tell me when you hear a reason to blare from my radio static. My hope is a bare hope since it's naked & fleeting.
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Nate Pritts is the author of four full-length books of poems - The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007), & the forthcoming Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX). He is the founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N & H_NGM_N BKS.
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