By Amy Simone Piller
Drop your politically correct conceptions
explosions are popular for a reason.
Eros and thanatos wrestle in your endoskeletoned brain
waiting to waft interpretation on your thoughts;
sometimes you need a fire lit under you,
sometimes you need a smile illuminated.
Relax, let the sky play the ceiling for a while
Atlas will hold on as the world expands
Another Athena will only be [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Brimming with things unwilling
to be thrown away
books once read
remembered only by title
waiting for what never will happen
things do not get reread closely
let go
make space.
By Amy Simone Piller
To brook
to tolerate so many things
august
magnificent majestic
like this morning
alloyed by anxiety
mixed with cardinal sin
To die
to shape something to lack
(are circles empty or open?).
Forever essay,
test, demand a loss of spirit
hoist everything
across a shallow body of water
ford
Felling
inhumanely cruel
so grouse complain grub
this is it guy
roped and ready
to list to lean
to meet be fitting
be pied
patch colors
get pluck get game
don’t [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Introduction:
Have you ever felt insecure before?
If yes, read this.
Materials needed:
struggling relationship,
insecure psyche,
alcohol.
Directions:
Do not reach out
when you most need things
stoicism will be rewarded
by silent judgements
you will otherwise receive
in the negative.
Particularly when in public
do not appear needy
such weaknesses might mar your reputation
for strength and faith you do not really have.
Do not break this code
especially with those you [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Scaling is complicated
for instance I cannot tell you
many policy positions based on what I see
Does this mean I know anything?
Who takes that risk of action early?
When a news anchor poses questions
arms crossed leaned over
articulated in an enchanting melody
the sirens of the stage allure
chocolate on a bad day
the spotlight seems cast
but it is only the shadow
or [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Because I have recognized
that this school does not work
I am leaving for another.
All of you who I have professed
to do my best by are going to stay
because you don’t have another option.
Because your mother doesn’t have time
to help you apply somewhere else
because your test scores weren’t high enough
to spark someone’s interest
because you’ve been suspended a [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
First light your blanket on fire
and all things associated with cildhood crying
next take the books you absorbed
and douse them in gasoline
that you drink before bed
and as your dreams incinerate
feel the space recreating
in your lungs in your mind
notice the people who drove you craziest
probably had the most problems to digest
burn windows, burn lenses, burn ledges, burn [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
May each child be prepared to think and learn and know
and go home each day feeling as if today they’ve grown.
May the underpinnings of each mind sparkle in every eye
May the children come tomorrow because their teachers care
May this room become a respite and the safety therein compel
each child in its embraces to spread the [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
Tentacle gently
pinch me, convince me
Let’s plumpen each other
May I feed you
won’t you feed me?
Later destroy me
undo me, contort
reconstrue me
Besides, we were too constrained,
So come on expand me
take my joints, misalign me
I’m fine lf you’re willing and near
Let me clasp you, trap you,
lobster pot rubber band you,
risk ten degrees higher
lets dive in the bubbling thrill
give me [...]
By Amy Simone Piller
I swear by Athena, Hegel and Freire
to keep according to my ability and my judgment,
the following Oath and agreement:
To consider dear to me, as my education,
the students and teachers who taught me this art;
to live in common with them and, if necessary, to share my goods with them;
to look upon them as my own family.
I [...]