Paper is Carbon Too: Kyle Firlik

April 6, 2020 Kate Belew with Kyle Firlik (Portland)

Let this mind be unwound - these fingers, uncrossed.

Make a paper crane of I'm sorry.

Thirty-some-odd crows have muddled the final pulp of my false slumber

and do we call that large group a murder? Or?

I like to think they got it right, whatever it is they did.

How do we account for these materials? These creases where luck meets a tiny tongue-lashing?

Let this mind be, the opposite of drowning.

Not sorting.  Not binding. 

But rather craning forward.

Paper is carbon too

a building block of 

Forgiveness.