I Have Been Building Myself Like a House for You

So move in whenever

Ben Kassoy
Human Parts

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Reckless Wonder

I will wait for the day you send love out into the world with reckless wonder like a message in a bottle that washes ashore to me the day I find my childhood baseball mitt and peel back a flap of leather that reveals your return address.

Until then I’m building myself like a house for you, so feel free to move in whenever.

Fire Flower

You are fire flower paper blood and I am honey coffee water sun.

Watch witches stir us in a cauldron and fulfill our prophecy as inevitable as time.

Night Light

Sometimes you’re a pinball machine in the dark hours after the arcade has closed, pinging and singing with indefatigable possibility and light.

Other times you’re a night light and I am four.

Dream Puzzles

Every morning reverberates in pitch-black as an orchestra tunes itself towards endless possibility.

Every night our bodies are music, dream puzzles tessellating to infinity.

Hidden City

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Ben Kassoy
Human Parts

Poet, writer, author of THE FUNNY THING ABOUT A PANIC ATTACK -- available now! www.benkassoy.com/books