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August 4, 2024

Therapy Moon

—Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking)

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Therapy of lavender

scrubbed between fingers

sniffed en route to the gallows

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Therapeutic clouds

miserable & miserly eyes

return to their original position

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Therapy of teeming glints

polished whatever, banked sun

surfaces bounce free

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Therapy of the horrid task

existing only to be done

soul lifts off in abandon

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Therapy of confession

this this this & this

it matters not a whit

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Therapy of two feet

for some, mobilization

for others, objects to prop

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Therapeutic doubletake

inside knowledge

has nowhere to go

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Therapeutic triple header

fame fortune fatality

bayou sundown

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Therapy of cognition

language a vibration

feeling a vibration

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Therapy of hot drinks

warm water returns home

swifter & kinder than cold

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Therapy of medium-soft touch

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stroke toward the heart

purification motion

Therapy of no-effort

just this tangible it

nothing to challenge

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Therapy of assent & denial

Yes & also no

Was but now isn't

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Therapy of paternity

the stone fathered moss

lichen labored longest

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Therapy of color

an animal in shadow

remains imagined

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Therapy of the gif

repetition compulsion

or repeated until done

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Therapeutic moment

another being paused

considering the fact of you

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Therapeutic bridge

what is happening

appears as coherent cloud

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Therapy as mimulas

sticky monkey flower

resin on fingers

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Therapy reminder

you are also a human

while being a storm

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Therapy sunshine

sliced sideways

orange yellow white

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Therapy dance step

first second third

fourth fifth sixth seventh

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Therapy with stranger

as well as the other

this exile headquartered here

POEM BY
Qayyum Johnson
ARTWORK BY SUIKO MCCALL

Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking)", 2024. Ink on paper, 14x11".

Prints available on request.

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