Seven Years. Good Luck.

SEVEN YEARS. GOOD LUCK.

Poems 2018–2025 · Josh S. Rose

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[00]7 Years. Good Luck.Seven years bad luck – who came up with that idea?Read →
[01]Job oneThe first thing you want to do is feel fulfilled and poorRead →
[02]The fallIt goes without saying you saw me at my worstRead →
[03]Factory cookiesGreat.Read →
[04]Between worldsMy four year old goes into her room sometimesRead →
[05]The planI don't know what curiosity is versus admiration versus envy anymore.Read →
[06]Distant thunderIn front of me, a study in baroque construction.Read →
[07]Time, LoveTime, Love... Love, TimeRead →
[08]SandTime. An image is time. Sand is time. None of it is time. You were a time. We forget more than we remember and what we remember isn't always in time with what happened. Details are lost.Read →
[09]The divineThe shots (photography) you plan are almost always an addition equation of things you know, a place you know, plus a thing you know, at a time determinedRead →
[10]Steals the heartA pause where we both see each other between worlds.Read →
[11]Four riversSpend less, know less, want less.Read →
[12]PiecesIf you paid the price of admission, that includes the dark.Read →
[13]Dark roomLet us take the stage, and show the night what we can do.Read →
[14]The saltTime has a point. Love is squishy curved.Read →
[15]How's Your Morning?Would he have done what my sister couldn't.Read →
[16]DrivenWe forget more than we remember.Read →
[17]Leonard CohenIt's hard to be moved anymore.Read →
[18]Day tripFind an interest in life before you lose your mind.Read →
[19]LecceHow to write a poem about fiery liquid that inches unstoppable devastation.Read →
[20]OlderThe dead aren't buried, they're gone.Read →
[21]QuailSteals the heart. That's it.Read →
[22]SliverFFS, tell me where you've anchored.Read →
[23]EchoesThere is no truth in wine — someone drank it before I got here.Read →
[24]No brandFor Rome may fall, but family quenches forever.Read →
[25]SplintersFrom the dry hands of Michelangelo to the wet feet of Bernini.Read →
[26]IntermissionThe tree didn't murder Ferdinand.Read →
[27]Sing alongWhen posting photographs comes with a lashing.Read →
[28]SpiralWe don't care what you do in our country.Read →
[29]The stageHow deep a tree that sounds like water goes.Read →
[30]The edgeI sit with the pain. I sit with the pain. I sit with the pain.Read →
[31]That skyWe teeter in our attempt to see ourselves — and we'd gladly fall.Read →
[32]MadmanYou are animal. You are the salt.Read →
[33]BrothersIt's the comparisons, desires, attachments and judgment.Read →
[34]KnotsWe gobble up the things that were intended to last.Read →
[35]LostAt least the past listens.Read →
[36]People moversWitheringly old. Anciently cursed. Bone dry.Read →
[37]WholeWho will you serve up there?Read →
[38]TalismanOnly ten thousand or so left.Read →
[39]ChemistryI am 99% the sweat of fear.Read →
[40]On Photographing the QueenIn truth, we are all only flying.Read →
[41]ReleasedGrow old, take a walk one day and don't return.Read →
[42]Not a manifestoIn the end you don't leave. The splinters do.Read →
[43]Mount EtnaWe can walk out on an old life.Read →
[44]The swordI'm warning you, I'm quick. I might take you!Read →
[45]RespiteThe edge is a sanctuary. Most will never go.Read →
[46]Then comes the morningJust trying to carry the water.Read →
[47]ConversationCan you fathom how lucky you are to be alive right now?Read →
[48]Want lessThat is like talking to yourself like a madman.Read →
[49]DiscussionUntying stops time.Read →
[50]AnchoredI am always lost. And you are not me.Read →
[51]CrazyI made a plan today.Read →
[52]Santa AnaIn a one-way train that ends in death, there are moments pure.Read →
[53]FictionsYou were born timeless.Read →
[54]CriticsSushi was an extravagance best served on naked bodies with blow.Read →
[55]WaiterYou have to swallow a lot of things you wish to vocalize.Read →
[56]More or lessNo gurus here. No future.Read →
[57]Rome is RomeMeat and potatoes.Read →
[58]ButterflyI don't know, I don't know, I don't know. And I'm free.Read →
[59]Wind advisoryThe jittery calm that becomes our waiting.Read →
[60]Over thereThen you get to be a child again.Read →
[61]CrossroadsAll night last night I dreamt of death.Read →
[62]WeathermanLife is better when you aren't trying to prove how good it is.Read →
[63]MilkAlone, naked, alive.Read →
[64]PermeateI'll light a fire with the pages of my story.Read →
[65]Grey blanketLove is hard because empathy is painful.Read →
[66]AnotherFamily? Those are one-to-one odds.Read →
[67]TransylvaniaUntil camera becomes conversation.Read →
[68]ProselytizeIt's just so blue.Read →
[69]Tin cupWant less, be less restless.Read →
[70]GraceSome sing songs to lure good people to their death.Read →
[71]UncoveredThis is when things get bloody.Read →
[72]StorytellersTo shed this excess salt.Read →
[73]Fell to earthSometimes the sky is red and we don't care.Read →
[74]MirrorsIn the dangerous path of flight, you can get swept away.Read →
[75]PathwaysI'll die in the sunlight, while critics sleep full and cold.Read →
[76]Fine daySome people lead lives, I follow them.Read →
[77]The mountainMore love, more nature… but less time.Read →
[78]CoffeeYou are the untouchable beauty of endurance.Read →
[79]Hand it overYouth is the strongest of fabrics, but it tears easily.Read →
[80]Then go swimmingWhat of all the bent and broken arrows lost?Read →
[81]PatternsThe math is not for the poets.Read →
[82]WhaleEvery day is a crossroads.Read →
[83]ListeningI'M your weatherman now!Read →
[84]Carry the waterHow can we look at the oceans and not the blood of icebergs.Read →
[85]PennilessTime crawled back inside the clock.Read →
[86]Find each otherAnother one, for one another.Read →
[87]The plan, againWhen we have closed our eyes… we proselytize.Read →
[88]The holeTomorrow's cup is still full. Still waiting.Read →
[89]DistancingTo whom it may concern…Read →
[90]Zoomed outDown in the tired cove, something shines. A real memory.Read →
[91]TimelessHolding maybe a little too tight to the baby.Read →
[92]Rocking chairI'm still here, in the imprint of my landing.Read →
[93]BannisterEven if the blood is cold, even if the mark remains.Read →
[94]Orange glowNow I long for the destruction.Read →
[95]Day 14The real gift is coffee. The real pain is the pursuit of legacy.Read →
[96]Ode To NormalcyOne moves, but is also moved.Read →
[97]Curly hairFind a shark and hear it out.Read →
[98]The mealI see the space around you.Read →
[99]ThirstyIt's hell down here.Read →
[100]GlassI'm listening. Now you go.Read →
[101]PCHBe inspired even if that means being poor.Read →
[102]HoneycombAnd the baby sleeps. And the wind is free.Read →
[103]I Did It My WayI wish that was all my days.Read →
[104]Out of focusIt will be between us for a hundred years.Read →
[105]Right hereEvery viewing after that is a lesson in decay.Read →
[106]ProvidenceI've only ever wanted you to fly.Read →
[107]ClayIt felt like travel.Read →
[108]The houseWhy are the letters still up on the bannister?Read →
[109]Mud and linesThese are songs of isolation we take them by day.Read →
[110]I don't knowFloating and free among a few dozen novels.Read →
[111]CopingIf you really want poetry that sticks, get the magnets.Read →
[112]Lost architectureI'll be here before you were born. Still eating. Long after.Read →
[113]Snow on sandAren't we all in a desert?Read →
[114]CluesLiquid hardens for all of us, caught up in our garages.Read →
[115]AprilThe honeycomb design of eyesight through hindsight.Read →
[116]LightingNow I'm the blackbird on the wire.Read →
[117]Found itI refuse to be alone.Read →
[118]Just so blueI'm right here.Read →
[119]CensusBefore we lumber toward the fire.Read →
[120]TubesWhat if I'm the crazy?Read →
[121]DanceWild, wet and unformed.Read →
[122]Open mindSaying I don't know a hundred times a day or so.Read →
[123]Make themThe stories of lost architecture live securely in the past.Read →
[124]Quiet gardenThere's a chill in me that won't forget.Read →
[125]Cargo shipLove with arms flailing.Read →
[126]ExhaustedThe more concrete things just fall away from memory forever.Read →
[127]Licorice ropesThis whole thing has really got me thinking.Read →
[128]Broken arrowsOnly as successful as I am lucky to be alive.Read →
[129]Small houseMaybe I shouldn't have called the police.Read →
[130]LighterWhat language do you speak?Read →
[131]PackingGod knows they never cared much on Earth.Read →
[132]The tideThoughts from an open mind.Read →
[133]StudyThey call to you like a scream in the distance.Read →
[134]MapleThe spiritual path is marked by loss not gain.Read →
[135]Desert stillnessIt is not sin we have to fear but stupidity.Read →
[136]PretzelsI, too, am all for a smarter, quieter garden.Read →
[137]Outer spaceDon't be tired, be exhausted!Read →
[138]ProcessSuccess is not the best revenge. It's just a cup of coffee.Read →
[139]Time itI still cannot cross it in dreams to reach her.Read →
[140]MilkshakeToday I will be lighter than yesterday.Read →
[141]BragIn the moments before lifting off.Read →
[142]BirthdayIt's one thing to dream, another to pack.Read →
[143]SquirrelThe best works are always a study.Read →
[144]AnnouncementNow you're a tree. Crazy right?Read →
[145]BookshelfThe beautiful sculpture we imagine ourselves becoming has already aged badly.Read →
[146]First lightEverything will be ok.Read →
[147]Once uponBecause love matters in space.Read →
[148]SeptemberWe do not enter alone.Read →
[149]BlackbirdJump!Read →
[150]Stuffed bearNevermind, we'll have the milkshake.Read →
[151]TelltalesI'm brag to the bone!Read →
[152]FreefallTry to breathe the sun into the sky.Read →
[153]FlailPainting portraits of passers by in the style of the Impressionists.Read →
[154]Another timeNot survival of the fittest, but survival of the nurtured.Read →
[155]2019Emerge once upon a different time.Read →
[156]Promo codeNot falling, flying.Read →
[157]RainsHold it like a stuffed bear. Tightly. Very very tightly.Read →
[158]Tides and currentsWhat if it rained like this forever..Read →
[159]Golden spearAccused of not having belonged on an out of control earth.Read →
[160]ColumnWondering when will be my time.Read →
[161]The pagesEverything is limited.Read →
[162]MerismThe noise and wet were replaced with a quiet end.Read →
[163]FijiDance the best you can there, broken bones and all.Read →
[164]The burgerAll I see is the stone column in the middle.Read →
[165]SpineUshered to the ballroom for the night's entertainment.Read →
[166]EntryThere lived a bit of life in the cracks.Read →
[167]ExhaustionThen we can all be born.Read →
[168]PrisonI am only eyeballs and thin skin with a whale's heart in the dark.Read →
[169]ReceptionOur memories are memories of memories.Read →
[170]Night paradeI don't know where it is anymore.Read →
[171]TentsEventually the memory is of forgetting.Read →
[172]Shanghai cracksKnowing at any minute it could all wash away.Read →
[173]OutliveDon't forget how good that bread is either.Read →
[174]Rabbit holeWhere your mother holds you. Womblike.Read →
[175]SituationTo die completely exhausted.Read →
[176]Let's driveJust gathering, constantly gathering.Read →
[177]Hold meFreedom is your passion applied in all directions.Read →
[178]DimpleBe a love and fly away.Read →
[179]Whale's heartThe core of homelessness is the lack of game pieces.Read →
[180]House our loveMay we all outlive our past.Read →
[181]Nine livesThe rabbit hole goes up.Read →
[182]HomeSo stay?Read →
[183]ForgetWhat do you do?Read →
[184]TogetherMy eyes are ocean water, heart pounding.Read →
[185]Sand castlesHold me, help me, show me, know me.Read →
[186]Wet sandBent and curved to fit it in.Read →
[187]BlanknessI will house our love.Read →
[188]BraveNow I'm Josh who?Read →
[189]Tunnel9 is the heat from a parked car — you ask to come home.Read →
[190]The windowWe've already won, boys. We've already won.Read →
[191]MorningsThe sun is not forever.Read →
[192]The gongI believe the best we can do is do together.Read →
[193]HeartbeatThat is the sand of the castle eroding in you.Read →
[194]Step oneI was a lamb with an extra long time in the womb.Read →
[195]BoxesYou only need to survive to have my love.Read →
[196]MotherI've learned to love the window.Read →
[197]TranscendenceWhere I am the mornings are quiet.Read →
[198]Snake bloodTry a portrait in Poland.Read →
[199]StrainedIn one giant, final, breathing — out.Read →
[200]Spring trainingRealize you've always been on step one.Read →
[201]Rain keeps fallingYou were so relaxed, relatable before you ran off.Read →
[202]GaribaldiOne destroys hoaxes and the other checks boxes.Read →
[203]Self-portraitsTranscendence is a promise we put off til after we make a buck.Read →
[204]VirginiasHonestly, you couldn't have missed her.Read →
[205]Honey bearLet stand for hours. Days. Years. Forget it.Read →
[206]Beautiful gameToday I feel like maybe that tide is shifting.Read →
[207]JosefinaWe need this water, but even more we need you.Read →
[208]ApocalypseAwait my orders.Read →
[209]TomorrowIt makes you drunk on west coast summers.Read →
[210]SquaresAnd I usually blank out.Read →
[211]Back of the houseLearns to fight.Read →
[212]Leap of faithMother's love comes in tablets.Read →

For Hajnal, who stood by so calmly.