Peter Myers
$5
July 16
I’m back with the purity condition
longing for right activity or at least a machine trusted to draw lines of distinction
frenetic confession not directed toward any one thing but operating as a strategy or way of life which upon zoom-out reveals the larger structure that will have been what was aspired to
I find myself in a clearing
troubled by attachments the having of them
I embrace them with my arms
they disintegrate but I still hold on
then the hug I give a friend becomes the one necessary condition to turn them to dust in my arms
so I’m walking sick in the cloud
it’s bound to me I can’t get out without risking agony
though somewhere a grip is loosening
as friends age I see how they become either more themselves or less but don’t maintain a constant distance and I wonder how I have moved or changed or
a green wave
purity comes in through cracks as fluid or maybe light
the edge a stable ghost
one time I told my mom I was trying to drink less coffee
she was incredulous she asked me why
[ green wave ]
~~~
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2024
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Peter Myers is a poet living in New York. His recent poems have appeared in Fence, Hot Pink Mag, jubilat, and Nomaterialism. He has written essays and reviews for Annulet, Full Stop, and Chicago Review.
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