fading

put in a decent two hours at the coffee shop. fuck, it's really hard getting back into this doubled mode of planning for teaching and taking classes.

nothing seems sharp, nothing seems adequate.

things fade, taper: mattresses in the living room. hinges. quiet nighttime walks. generic brand antacid tablets (1000mg). lit fires. the crumbling groans of a receding cumulonimbus. distances. the smell of wet wool. on a granite boulder, lichen the color of the ocean from within and below. those contemplative tonalities hummed into cell phones. the simple categorizations of adhesiveness. eyepieces. penciled drawings of a collective hubris. deep-fried basil stalks. a chipped and jagged pitcher spout. seven rusted washers. growth.