Fred Aiken Writing

September 2, 2023

NATURE’S BAKERY

pour flour onto flowers and let bake in the sun for twenty to twenty-four hours
to experience great sun-cookies on the horizon
of another fantastic flavor profile of nature stripping molecules to
expose its naked, budding quintessent quietness

September 1, 2023

INTERNALIZE

the battlescars of personal wars
never look or sound all that heroic,
the mental anguish, the internalized trauma, the crippling anxiety
of waking up, getting dressed, and addressing the world
as a thing that doesn’t exist and never did

August 31, 2023

AN EMOJI MOVIE AD

the emoji movie looks like it could be fun,
i probably won’t watch it, still,
but hey, i can imagine
an alternate reality self possibly watching it
and wondering what their life would be like
if they hadn’t