LR Young : Writing

Hollywood

Hollywood

A Poem by LR Young


when you hold on tight to the right thread long enough, it turns into a torch, sparks strength into your tired limbs, released from years paci..
Reliquary

Reliquary

A Poem by LR Young


in the company of others I can be sagacious, I can hold their whole troublesome loneliness in my hand and coax out new birds, I can sit benea..
The Thinking Plain (On the Way to Lyons)

The Thinking Plain (On the Way to Lyons)

A Poem by LR Young


there will be a moment, a true salacious common feeling, & there is a name for it (I always forget, a technique for the written) t..
I'll Choose the Wood

I\'ll Choose the Wood

A Poem by LR Young


there is a single hole atop the lip of my head, I slip through it like a high wire act, all consciousness, it spools all the way through t..
(On the Road) Suticases, Suitcases

(On the Road) Suticases, Suitcases

A Poem by LR Young


so this is what has been eating at me, the genie-emptied bottle, the lamp not casting light on any path that two feet or four wheels can follo..
Pronaos

Pronaos

A Poem by LR Young


feeling into the fourth morning of absence, a quartered series of beds looking empty on your side of my days. the rain just comes and comes, ..
The Terms

The Terms

A Poem by LR Young


only if you will go to the very end of it; only if you will stand on the edge of my periphery and no further; only if you will breathe fully into..
Depot

Depot

A Poem by LR Young


i filled my pockets with silt to root me; coal black mud to suit me and my traipsing through raindrops, splashing in little red galoshes. I can ..
Maya

Maya

A Poem by LR Young


there is a violence that distance renders. it makes for great emptiness-es. canyons. i can't taste the jealousies or the fury, just the throb of th..
Midwestern Ulysseys

Midwestern Ulysseys

A Poem by LR Young


feeling quiet, maybe it's the rain. maybe it's the sun hidden. the siren songless. I would say morning is not bright without you, but I am tri..