Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

Thundersnow

 

Winter thunderstorms, like rare events of the heart, readily replicate

Atmospheric pressure since relationship thermodynamics frequently

Cull antisocial events, a number of which transpire beyond forecasts.

Favorable conditions for deep lightening, elsewise other expressions

Of disillusionment might occur when squalls’ sundry strong feelings

Get triggered. Reducing or exchanging them proceeds as impossible.

 

More rare than Irish Elk, interpersonal “lake effects” seem to follow

Conditions of unrequited love. After all, so many factors are needed

To bring about associative conditions. Maybe, unity’s nature’s freak.

Weigh how ample external mindsets account for goings-on whereas

Hidden ones, time after time, cannot, eternally, be vocally shrouded.

Intimate vagaries, similarly, stay necessary for emotional regulation.

 

Note: muffled indicators of hurt, replicating thunderstorm’s graupel,

(Those conical crystals symptomatic of supercooled happenstances)

Represent occasions when dear mates yearn for attraction, animacy.

Provided that diverse, ostensibly unique phenomena don’t establish

Any primary processes for precipitation falling onto delicate spirits,

Cold poses won’t normally appear or fabricate extratropical storms.

 

 

 

 

 

More Surface on the Sand

 

Incisively signifying folks tend toward communal rejoicing.

Though such trenchant style oft gets confused with yobbish

Talk, or orthorexic attempts to control people through food,

Constantly, contrariwise, inscrutable folks hoodwink others.

When expressionless persons “sigh,” their facial corners fail

To winch up, to urge zygomaticus muscles into true position.

Those dispassionate, wooden, plainly unresponsive contacts,

Seem ne’er accountable for gumming up admired discourse.

 

Fixed spirits, disparate demonstrative moods, forever reveal 

Stasis, suggesting that not just Western black rhinos, quagga,

The Bramble Cay melomys have become extinct, but certain

Frames of mind, also, have vanished from human awareness.

The alienation of human sentiment was never ameliorated by

Doomscrolling; the relationship amid words, actions, as well

As consequences can’t construe certain behaviors. Lengthily,

Any analyses or unraveling is ever more surface on the sand.

 

 

 

 

 

Wild Swimming

 

Wild swimming’s never limited to jillaroos taking deserved breaks nor to

Entrepreneurs with maxed out cupidity; rather, civilians and conscripts of

All stripes appreciate open waters

 

Seas, lakes, and rivers constitute a single mode of welcoming fluidity. From

Pallus cats to Alabio ducks, our biota, similarly, appreciates spreading feral

Limbs in freedom. Cages suit no members of the natural world; circuses &

Zoos can’t constitute home.

 

Per humanity, it’s likewise true that society’s integument’s better abandoned

In favor of self-determination. Although autonomy does not call for candor,

Sometimes, nonconformity offers the sort of nonalignment, which fuels our

Choices. After all, liberties eventually cull such arrangements as represented

Taxation and free will.

 

Within our own beliefs, our private sanctums, such shrines as we build to high

Falutin concepts, such hideaways as exist to shelter poorly processed positions,

There exist problematic habituum, knotty perceptions and reactions to worldly

Goings-on, which can be ameliorated through ignoring the anchorites amist us

While deferring to ethical chiaroscuro to emancipate would-be bathers seeking

Uninhabited streams.

 

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