things i’ve been considering…

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Clare Zicari 8/12/25 Clare Zicari 8/12/25

snowflakes.

i hold the future

in my mind

like a mitten

holds Snowflakes

on a january day.

Clare Zicari 8/12/25 Clare Zicari 8/12/25

canyons.

i have an obsession / with wear / with erosion

Clare Zicari 1/5/25 Clare Zicari 1/5/25

~ guns and apples

i think that if i just stay utterly silent utterly silent utterly silent

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Clare Zicari 1/1/25 Clare Zicari 1/1/25

brass.

They look like they were sleeping though. They look like they were smart enough to know it was just another night. Best to sleep. Best to rest.

Better to wake up in the morning.

But here we are.

There they are.

Clare Zicari 12/28/24 Clare Zicari 12/28/24

fate.

HAPPINESS! lain on the front stoop the hot cement of the summer morning…

Clare Zicari 12/28/24 Clare Zicari 12/28/24

some questions for inertia.

how is it possible to run headlong at someone right in front of you and never reach their side?

Clare Zicari 12/23/24 Clare Zicari 12/23/24

paper cut.

The first thing I learned when I was born was to tough it out. Not to be tough. Just to tough it out. There’s a difference. God, there’s a difference.

The world is unfair, I learned. The world hurts sometimes. The world is, ultimately, forgiving, and eventually all tends to work itself out.

And so we tough it out.

Clare Zicari 12/23/24 Clare Zicari 12/23/24

luck.

Calico cats are lucky, you know. That’s what some people say, at least. That’s what this one is, I think. This one is lucky, and she’s lent one of her lives to the boy whose lap she’s perched on. She stays even though he can’t hold her while the nurses do their work. She stays even though every fiber of her instinct tells her she should run.

Clare Zicari 12/21/24 Clare Zicari 12/21/24

train track light.

i hope that you see me

crossing the tracks

in the rain / umbrella-less

in the snow / hat-less

in the sun / shade-less

Clare Zicari 12/11/24 Clare Zicari 12/11/24

lessons.

I find Hamoud again, this time with a broken box and a single kitten, smaller this time. Hamoud-sized. Even so, he looks like he feels big, standing there holding it, this kitten even younger than he is.

things i’ve been considering…

my poet muse.