8 Chubby Pockets / Everything Between and Surrounding / The Life of a Sailor
Three poems on heartbreak, subjectivity, and persistence, respectively.
8 Chubby Pockets
At some point in time...
we decided to get lost
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Led North by an airplane,
our interpretation was direction
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and when we looked through the trees
it was either hard to tell—
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or impossible to admit.
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"Do you love me?"
"Yes, absolutely. Completely. Forever."
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...it was a gaze, actually.
That moment couldn't leave me;
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I nestled my fingers up through the strays on
the tallest point of your neck
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8 chubby pockets
had never been so full

Everything Between and Surrounding
Stuff we have and those we don't
lean on my perception
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They look to me in conversation; glances as
buoys in para-translation
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water dips and bobs in sonder rhythm
and all of a sudden chimes a chord
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[the chord]
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chance, maybe—autonomy, probably. play,
the instruments of reality
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What I can see, all I can transpose,
a line of best fit, hopefully, in harmony

The Life of a Sailor
It seems like the same lost soul of so many
years old still can't figure it out
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This is the new line |
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In a stream of consciousness
the boat ain't forever; and still, water
wanders beyond the horizon
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A new line today, that's all.
The life of a Sailor;
About the Creator
Justin Murray
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