Lesson 13.
Forget all
Of this.
Forget
What has been written.
Forget how
It used to be.
Do not
Turn your beautiful head.
Take your steps forward
only.
So says the mother.
So says the dirt and
The ocean and
The trees.
Lesson 8.
There will still be
Children
Here
At the end of time.
Still small humans
In their tiny shoes
Their fun-size clothes
Laughing giggling
Building new worlds from
Out of the remains of
This world. With
Their heads
Their delicate
Hands.
Jessica Rigney is a poet, artist, and filmmaker. Her poetic sound experiments may be heard at jessicarigney.bandcamp.com. Find her films under her name at YouTube. Years of collaborations with letterpress artists, musicians, and visual artists has yielded beautiful artifacts one may stumble upon among the interwebs. She is poetjess on Instagram.