Posts tagged Zachary Schomburg

The old man who watches me sleep
has wings

growing from his chest.
This is a mistake.

This is why 
he’s so hunched over. 

Sometimes, 
his crying wakes me 
and I open my eyes a little 
to find him 
trying to push 
those wings 
through 
to the other side. 

If you have a soul
it may have been put in there backward.

—Zachary Schomburg

(Source: cocophony)

You are in a very high tree.

If you jump
you will live a full life
while falling

You will get married
to a hummingbird

and raise beautiful part-
hummingbirds.

— Zachary Schomburg

(Source: cocophony)

I found a beating heart half-buried in the woods. It was 
beating beneath some dead leaves. When I picked it up, it was 
warm and heavy in my cold hands. I worried I was going to 
drop it. Later, I found a woman half-buried not far from 
where I found the beating heart.  Is this your beating heart? I 
asked. She didn’t answer. She didn’t have a larynx. She didn’t 
even have a thorax. She didn’t have anything. Not even arms 
or legs or a head. She really wasn’t a woman as much as she 
was the space between dead leaves. No, it’s yours she said.

—Zachary Schomburg

(Source: cocophony)

I know a dead wolf
we can climb inside
and beat

like little hearts.
It would maybe
come back

to life,
the wolf.

—Zachary Schomburg

(Source: cocophony)