LR Young : Writing

Above Montmarte

Above Montmarte

A Poem by LR Young


there was a moment now a decade ago, one summer in Paris, on the only hill in a sacred heart above Montmartre. It was Sunday and the choir w..
there is none so whole as a broken heart

there is none so whole as a broken heart

A Poem by LR Young


a rabbi said the messiah sits just outside, at the gates into the city, waiting not for the pious, or the sinners needing redemption but for m..
To Moshe, Asking Forgiveness

To Moshe, Asking Forgiveness

A Poem by LR Young


Dear M_ sh _ there were nights, most nights milked and honeyed I would run, headlong into sleep knowing I would find you there: waiting, re..
Melagrana

Melagrana

A Poem by LR Young


there is a certain blessing to forgetfulness, the way it can, like those paper presses, confess a years worth of flowers into bookcases, notes a..
Cauter

Cauter

A Poem by LR Young


I felt it before it even loosened the strings that kept the feeling taut, confined by the breath in your lungs, the absence of your exhale punct..
C'mon Home, Crow Jane

C\'mon Home, Crow Jane

A Poem by LR Young


you're like fire and water, you burn me up, up only to soothe my marrow, the serpentine coiling of my own effervescence, the ricochet of light..
Karma, too.

Karma, too.

A Poem by LR Young


before I enter I remove my shoes; maybe it's a holy place, and maybe it's purely for comfort so that when I come to stand at an angle in the..
Eclipse

Eclipse

A Poem by LR Young


It's like seeing the sky when both the moon and the sun are visible and you know it's day; you know. you do. you know that this is the reali..
hyporheic tendency

hyporheic tendency

A Poem by LR Young


Some nights the river floods, its brackish bank mixing the mud with the first oceanic minerals, the spiral of grit, galaxies at the grindstone b..
Jefferson County

Jefferson County

A Poem by LR Young


om guru deva.