by Destiny Weiss | Oct 2, 2024 | 2024 September, Poetry
For a while, to put socks on my hands was to grow paws, sprout furry ears. I strained upward at the age of four, imagined a launch, pushed my mind into the sky, and wings opened out from my shoulders. For a full year I made myself into a dog, ruddy with pure love on...
by Destiny Weiss | Aug 31, 2024 | 2024 August, Poetry
I keep finding myself in situations where I’m telling myself: RUN. But I can’t always figure out how to get on my feet without putting myself in the headlights first. And I know, better than any of my predators, that I need that...
by Destiny Weiss | Aug 31, 2024 | 2024 August, Poetry
Come morning, a blackbird knocks at the window to the right of my alarm clock. The two machines share more than a propensity to track time. They understand needs, including mine. Both sing tunes of pleasing notes. Bonjour. Shalom. Adios. I stir. I turn. I yawn. A red...
by Destiny Weiss | Aug 31, 2024 | 2024 August, Poetry
Dear God I see you in the setting sun and see myself in these blue currents below darkening to purple as the minutes pass and think of my parents— Waikiki Beach, take me home and take everything else, too. Make my mother weep. Leaving the water with scrapes and...
by Destiny Weiss | Aug 1, 2024 | 2024 July, Poetry
Escape from posthumous platitudes toBe a truth they cannot denyDespite all their search forA One and OnlyPasted over and overUntil we reach some perverse word countAs long as we reach the endSince at least there is one No more worries aboutWhat comes after a rest that...
by Destiny Weiss | Jul 29, 2024 | 2024 July, Poetry
The day of the truck crash, someone drove me to church, A few days before the new year, I saw a fox in my arms the teddy bear the firefighters gave me, carrying a rabbit in its mouth as it crossed the asphalt it had been raining, which is why we hydroplaned your dad’s...
