Something To Surrender To
by Austin Holmes
fear vibrates between flesh
ricocheting off bone
nothing is truly inviolable
upon recollection
time reveals the seams
and how to split them
every year
I seem to unlearn
my understanding of life
the residue of memory
clinging to me
like cosmic dust mingling to new forms
without purpose
yet at night
I stare upward
at the damselflies
like dark strands of vitreous
on the retina of the clouds
darting away
as the eyes chase them
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before the sun
arrives from the unwinding dark
the old notes of night’s world fade
as though lightly fallen
upon the skin of a dream
and I give myself to it
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The last few years have increasingly taught me that acceptance of human fragility and the ability to be vulnerable is an immense strength, and that often, when feeling crushed by the weight of things we cannot control, it is the intimacy of small moments that bring me back to Earth.
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AUSTIN HOLMES lives in southern Utah, where he spends life with his beloved partner and their dog. He contemplates what he can and falls in love with the sky daily anew.