the way things are
small pains over
time
build great houses
of ache -
a light buzz of
heartbreak -
a prism
that reduces life’s
hue and
intensifies it all the
same -
the slow sting of
an unfixed
interaction, pooling
up in the pores
like the blood of
a freshly torn
tattoo
you may write
yourself a
new name
you may make
a home in
pain, you may
build your
gate in
time - you may field
a life of
ache that you have
wrongly called
“the way things are”
When I fell asleep in all my clothes as a kid my mother would call it ‘ready to roll’.
Greg Faulkner architect
Dexter Dalwood, Brian Jones’ Swimming Pool 2000
