There is no single particular noun
for the way a friendship,
stretched over time, grows thin,
then one day snaps with a popping sound.
No verb for accidentally
breaking a thing
while trying to get it open
—a marriage, for example.
No particular phrase for losing a book
in the middle of reading it,
and therefore never learning the end.
There is no expression, in English, at least,
for avoiding the sight
of your own body in the mirror,
for disliking the touch
of the afternoon sun,
for walking into the flatlands and dust
that stretch out before you
after your adventures are done.
No adjective for gradually speaking less and less,
because you have stopped being able
to say the one thing that would
break your life loose from its grip.
Certainly no name that one can imagine
for the aspen tree outside the kitchen window,
in spade-shaped leaves
spinning on their stems,
working themselves into
a pale-green, vegetable blur.
No word for waking up one morning and looking around, because the mysterious spirit
that drives all things
seems to have returned
and is on your side again.
12. And I Love Her - Kurt Cobain https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/7LJpRP5NJ9RNJLsO2U3sMo 13. Mama, You Been On My Mind - Jeff Buckley
NOTES:
2. Fun fact. Since I've started working full time again, weekends are now my least favorite days. Every weekend is like new years eve, and they can never live up to the hype.
3. Break my heart Anderson .Paak. See him at Twilight
5. Can't find the track anymore, so hope you enjoy this lovely video and Nelly Furtado is a TRUE ARTIST you guys. She kills it.
4. "The then is always sweeter than the now" :(
6. My Brightest Diamond is too much. A true poet.
10. That's a pretty happy sad song if I ever heard one
12. Break my heart
13. And break my heart again
