“Early in 2019 on vacation in Hawaii, my dad and I were chatting over morning coffee about what each of us had been working on — he freshly retired from teaching creative writing, and I recently returned to the On Planets project after about a year in hiatus. I mentioned casually that if he wrote an...
You throw stones
I put up sticks
The sound we make
Is a thunder
When wind wails up
A push through each room
Door blows open
Letters get tangled
From A onto Z
We put them together
So hard to read
In a constant come-around
Believe me, I should know by now
Remind me how this goes
Broken bones, broken bones
Acquiescent to the tone
Believe me, I should know, I should know
But show me how this goes
Broken bones, broken bones
You carry sticks
I pile up stones
The space between us
Sounds like distance
A word so simple to spell
The sentence that we build
Is a thunder
Sticks was written by On Planets.
Sticks was produced by On Planets.
On Planets released Sticks on Fri Dec 06 2019.