Play It For Me Once More Harvey

Play It For Me Once More Harvey


Oh, One True Love,
why does there have to be many?
I'm feeling things only felt for you
and my heart breaks
that I might break yours.


I can't move on
and yet I'm walking
creeping on things through doors
I found
and didn't think I'd need to find again.


And I tear
and crutch
as I'm down
and leapt
across away.


Fiddle-sticks;
picking up sticks
and mending
bird cages
that held a time.


Oh, One True Love,
there are many,
although you're gone
I'm finding few
who are true and love this one.


-Matthew Koutzun

Levity

Levity


There is a lightness in his step
and a chain on one foot
he is dragging and yanking as he walks forwards on air


Head in the clouds
and feet dangling down
he's flying so close to the ground.


Icarus could have learned something from him-
could have taken notes
or scribed on stone.


Because being so close to the middle
in constant love
yet alone.


Content in height
and in depth
he's making his way above and through crowds.


-Matthew Koutzun

Bestly Bottom-feeding

Bestly Bottom-feeding


Little apple
at the bottom of the pile
I know you are the best.


You are the reddest,
ripest, and readily 
the most delicious thing I have ever seen.


I know that if I take you
the rest above-
in your prim little pyramid,
are parading down too.


I've looked at all the others now
and none are as bold as you-
and I don't care what the grocer grumbles anyway.


But it's sadly true-
I haven't sampled you
and your skin could be a lie.


But here I go anyway
because I want you more
than the creaking consequence
of the ambling apples afterwards.


-Matthew Koutzun