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December 29, 2015
This book is so beautiful. So beautiful.
Hello you are made
of diamonds Let’s
walk through
a door or two
Let’s
allow our skin to light up
much to
the night’s
chagrin
But this isn’t correct
You are not made of
diamonds You are
holding me
& it feels like less
than a century has
passed
I am beginning to believe
in your softness Yes
let’s
try to go back
where we
were Or at least keep
going where
the light
reflects
until our greatest
accomplishment is to
bear a
striking
resemblance
to it
Hello you are made
of diamonds Let’s
walk through
a door or two
Let’s
allow our skin to light up
much to
the night’s
chagrin
But this isn’t correct
You are not made of
diamonds You are
holding me
& it feels like less
than a century has
passed
I am beginning to believe
in your softness Yes
let’s
try to go back
where we
were Or at least keep
going where
the light
reflects
until our greatest
accomplishment is to
bear a
striking
resemblance
to it
July 21, 2017
Hello
this latest collection named Tandem
comes from softness
himself Dalton Day
& is the inaugural ebook for Fruita Pulp
Adorned with cover art by a wizard & cloud
these 24 greetings aka poems
aka messages of love
were written by Dalton for his blue bird
his shared time Ricky during their distance apart
as even across the distance of stars
we see how longing can form a home
of sorts for the lonely
Like all good people Dalton is truly
a nature poet at heart as he drives toward mountains
because he loves them which is a correct thing
to love Whether knowing
you hold a scorpion or asking if you’ll sing
his horses to sleep you’re taught
in Tandem not to look for answers
in something that never had flowers
bursting out of it Otherwise we find too much
surprise & awe in this life
where a whale wanders Day’s belly when he can’t sleep
exploring this strange world she’s been thrown into
& Day sees it all as he wonders if we feel
like a dog most days or how you wanted
to grow up to be a hurricane
instead of a garden Yet Dalton
is always tender always telling us that
he believes in our softness and our attempts
at forgetting the petals in our spine
Sometimes Day tells us he can’t wait
to be eaten by whatever waits to eat him
and this beautiful vulnerability
is like the moon apologizing to trees
before it must leave them
This soft searching book knows you
are made of diamonds much to the night’s chagrin
and that a wrist’s only purpose is to listen
Here we find Dalton exploding into the formation
of trees so we might grow taller than a threat
and reach our full airplane potential
Come cross this distance & let your tornadoes sing for you
this latest collection named Tandem
comes from softness
himself Dalton Day
& is the inaugural ebook for Fruita Pulp
Adorned with cover art by a wizard & cloud
these 24 greetings aka poems
aka messages of love
were written by Dalton for his blue bird
his shared time Ricky during their distance apart
as even across the distance of stars
we see how longing can form a home
of sorts for the lonely
Like all good people Dalton is truly
a nature poet at heart as he drives toward mountains
because he loves them which is a correct thing
to love Whether knowing
you hold a scorpion or asking if you’ll sing
his horses to sleep you’re taught
in Tandem not to look for answers
in something that never had flowers
bursting out of it Otherwise we find too much
surprise & awe in this life
where a whale wanders Day’s belly when he can’t sleep
exploring this strange world she’s been thrown into
& Day sees it all as he wonders if we feel
like a dog most days or how you wanted
to grow up to be a hurricane
instead of a garden Yet Dalton
is always tender always telling us that
he believes in our softness and our attempts
at forgetting the petals in our spine
Sometimes Day tells us he can’t wait
to be eaten by whatever waits to eat him
and this beautiful vulnerability
is like the moon apologizing to trees
before it must leave them
This soft searching book knows you
are made of diamonds much to the night’s chagrin
and that a wrist’s only purpose is to listen
Here we find Dalton exploding into the formation
of trees so we might grow taller than a threat
and reach our full airplane potential
Come cross this distance & let your tornadoes sing for you
July 23, 2019
"The island I am flying toward isn't an island / But a roar we can live inside of."
I adore Dalton Day's writing, and this free ebook is no different. The cohesion found in each collection is so refreshing. A book of one-act plays, for example. A book of couplets, all with the same name, for example. A book of prose poems involving dogs, for example. And this collection, all of which are unnamed, and all of which begin with, 'Hello'. Beautiful, beautiful.
I adore Dalton Day's writing, and this free ebook is no different. The cohesion found in each collection is so refreshing. A book of one-act plays, for example. A book of couplets, all with the same name, for example. A book of prose poems involving dogs, for example. And this collection, all of which are unnamed, and all of which begin with, 'Hello'. Beautiful, beautiful.
July 4, 2017
It's beautiful.
April 10, 2015
"You aren’t
here yet
with these
trees
These moons
But you will be
So let’s not die
yet"
here yet
with these
trees
These moons
But you will be
So let’s not die
yet"
May 23, 2015
If this doesn’t feel like magic, I don’t know what will.
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