Writer, educator, poetry editor @frozenseapoetry | chapbook Life History out from @ghostcitypress | mostly on Instagram now | at | williamwardbutler
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ALT haze late november the grass frosted with wind weight and all day thunder from the upstairs neighbor's piano these dead things we touch air into and you'd show up unannounced at my apartment soaked in snow and traffic noise to hold me in the hallway light of emergency and whoops how the bones confuse ache for wonder and you'd bracket my smile in your hands and every year slanted lilacs still alive on purpose and the distance between love and a knife is someone's god and you'd trace minuses across my forehead to flatline the ones tinting my arm
ALT and with a body this chalkboard you'd think i would've solved something by now and last night i stood with my back to the music you showed me from that playlist you made when i still wore my hair in ponytails unafraid of the light hitting all sides of me at once and my shoulders adjusted an octave lower.
ALT Cover of issue 13 of fourteen poems which is lime with purple writing, on a white background.
