24Nov 2022 Mark Senkus

WHAT WE WALK TOWARD

sun shining dances in leaves across the white paper of birch bark distance is a mirage only the mind sees birds are shadows darting through consciousness like streaks of wind... Read More
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Stuck in a stroll, always sky in control. – mh clay

19Sep 2021 Mark Senkus

THREE AUTUMNAL SONGS

1. DARK the moon is keeping watch bolted onto the nightfall sky wind carries the clouds delicately past like gray fragments torn away by our brooding. 2. CLEAR the clouds... Read More
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A Fall with no landing only turns on turns in promising directions. – mh clay

9Sep 2020 Mark Senkus

TO BLAME

time is busy making room only for itself as usual we are busy doing our best to do ourselves in even the rocks won’t survive our bombs but for now... Read More
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No more rocks? No more us. None left to blame… – mh clay

25Jul 2019 Mark Senkus

AN OLD NOTION

our exhaustion trapped within us like holding the weight of lead in a closed hand in the dark mist a train echoes like the windblown rain it moves in hums... Read More
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Trainspotting to transporting; a rare visitation from the blast of a horn. – mh clay

26Dec 2018 Mark Senkus

UNLIT TREE AFTER

a city plow truck outside tearing open the late morning with an angle of snow pushed to the side and inside the house a tin with a few Christmas cookies... Read More
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Use this day for repose and recall. In the New Year, we’ll clean up all (maybe… maybe not). – mh clay

22Aug 2018 Mark Senkus

UPON EXAMINATION

the sky looks down through a wounded eye clouds like broken hands scattering the dust I listen to recognize the voice of rain moon in early morning an empty fire... Read More
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Eye to eye; we strive to stay in place when being is the thing. – mh clay

22Jun 2018 Mark Senkus

SAND

we pinch with our eyes the sight of the long horizon spilling out this glow to all sides of us and the clouds move in tantrums like snakes like the... Read More
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Mirage or mirror, this sip of existence is hard to swallow. – mh clay

22May 2017 Mark Senkus

WATCHING HIM GO

he might just be that man sinking into the sidewalk as you walk by he smiles at you but continues downward to that place we call vanished and he is... Read More
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He might be we are him and all vanish in time, so… It’s nice to be noticed. (We welcome Mark to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of his madness on his new page – check it out.) – mh clay

23Mar 2017 Mark Senkus

BOUNDARY

the silence that is missing will come back to us the womb we were unaware of with its embracing cave of stillness only the drum of heartbeat off through the... Read More
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It’s all womb; from silence to silence. – mh clay

5Jul 2015 Mark Senkus

APOLOGY

young boy with pellet gun aiming at anything moving a tree swallow fluttering near its nest hole far up the birch tree an innocent pulling of trigger a dead-on kill... Read More
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Let regrets over triggers pulled influence future pointing of the gun. Peace, first! – mh clay