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Your Backyard

from Live, Alone, 2016 by Anthony Jay Sanders

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In the backyard of your house
where every dream I dreamed played out
the pond and every fish it brought
waved its water to my drought
It's expansive and it's green
and it's practical and kind
It's the urgency in all my nerves
to always press rewind
I don't always think I'm good
but the good in me prevailed
on our hands and on our knees
among the cucumbers and kale
The books and pews to Earth and you
The Good News that to which I crawl
With every calendar day crossed
your face was just a crystal ball

When I see me in your yard
I look precocious, I look new
I look teenage but I wasn't
I was sick and twenty two
Dragonflies across the top
Waterspiders underneath
Smile was jumping off my face
An infection in my teeth
When the memories get thin
you'll be sepia and soft
I will choke up when I think of them
and cough cough cough
I could say that I was right
but I can't tell you what it means
To whom does it concern?
In what way did I learn?

With you there
it sounds so young
but it felt like flying
It honestly felt like flying
Now I can't explain myself

When you see me there
I hope you see me smiling
Not in puzzlement and hurting
Not anything else

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from Live, Alone, 2016, released March 16, 2023

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Anthony Jay Sanders Chicago, Illinois

I sing for The Island of Misfit Toys, I sing for myself, and I definitely sing for you. This is a place to gradually release everything that isn't TIOMT.
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