How we Measure

How we Measure

Oh,
it's all new again.
Though it's only a few kilometers away.

I've been moving further and further
and each time I go back
I retrace the steps that move me each time.

It's purely coincidental
that each time I've left some institution
and moved to the next
it's been further from the one I went to
and home.

But now without walls
and without form
I'm trying to measure.

I'm building with blocks
and moving when needed
and chapters, and pages are passed.

I didn't know how to mark these passages
or how to notice growth
but time and time again
I move from each institution using intuition
and am finding I'm the only institution in time.

-Matthew Koutzun

How We Stay Kindled

How We Stay Kindled

Staring at your back
I'm here
and wondering how it started
lying next to you bewildered.

What is it that makes us continue
when perhaps a spark is lost?

And you turning over
giving a squinted
and a tired smile
as you drift back away
to some bright place

I see how it works
falling again and again
unnoticed
but felt.

-Matthew Koutzun