Thinking of a Few Off-Staging Words

When they come to slam it down, the audience watches for impact, for force; the rap, the tap, the click, the rhythms of cascading words taram taram…

22 hrs ago • Anna Atsu

9

1

1

September 2026

What Happens?

We need months of insanely beautiful weather, even if we'd have to be bag ladies.

Sep 20 • Anna Atsu

8

We Love The First Summers

We love the first summers, although they’re not the best

Sep 6 • Anna Atsu

14

1

August 2026

No need for another person to say this

No other person will need to say how much I love you

Aug 23 • Anna Atsu

14

2

1

The pill I have just taken

The gummy have just taken kicked in

Aug 16 • Anna Atsu

9

Even Some Enough

Look closely at a glass of wine liquid laws of wind, fermentation, geological distillation from the earth history of stars still cooling in its atomic…

Aug 9 • Anna Atsu

20

2

3

I DO NOT WEAR GLASSES

I own seven pairs—sunglasses mainly— and some unmatched with my face—

Aug 2 • Anna Atsu

14

3

2

July 2026

This Is the Time

We tell each other kind things.

Jul 26 • Anna Atsu

17

2

2

Catch Five Magpies by the Tail

We laugh at them for their glitter-search flurry.

Jul 19 • Anna Atsu

13

1

2

Fatalistic? Oh, God, No Way!

I sit calmly editing, another hour, that chapter that I am finally getting liked When the sirens go, the helicopter, not one, Many in Manny Hover…

Jul 12 • Anna Atsu

18

6

1

And afterwards we’ll tell each other all about it

You hear crimson in blue; you understand warmth through coldness and all of it comes in half-grey tones, in cold blue whispers that no one understands…

Jul 6 • Anna Atsu

10

1

Warmly Humans

The machine did it coldly, as if no human hand had hidden behind the order just merely placed, and these streets, these geraniums on a hand-tended…

Jul 4 • Anna Atsu

13

3