Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “True love is something / that cannot be found… / …Do not go looking.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “It is at times when I / am bored into inertia I write / as act of defibrillation…”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “When you / stay there, bid the concierge, “Come, / see the tiny bugs scurry to / darkness!”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “If / everything is random, I’ll awake with it, / a guitar in my hands. Melodic vibration kills / loneliness. Saves me.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Don’t get me started on people, / the ones in love with Want…If they only give for / the immediate return on th...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Questions / arose, from petty misuse of / Mother’s many talents donated in faith, / whether the divine highway ...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Constantly, he / releases propaganda, wants / everyone to / worship it—make / it Bible.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “I blare and blister my strange poems / tappity-tap in my phone notebook app are / weird women, brazen bastards,...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “No / one knows how to properly dress / for the final rehearsal— / this / danse macabre to Death’s violin…”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Pinwheels / spinning in spectator children’s hands—and / mine, asking the significance of outfield windsocks.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Nature and / Nurture pre-set my temperature to freezing— / crystallized the fun completely.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “I cannot look at claustrophobic coffins, / cannot picture the dead inside, they are / always alive, wondering, ...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “It’s more than / your own parents losing / their faith in you, it is / the fact you were not / even playing.”

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Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “What if / there is a part of you / burdened to carry / an accumulation of your / discarded past?”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “When you are sushi-and-sake drunk, / be not tempted by the live octopus / in salt water tank.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “When a cactus comes undone, / rot hides below ground for / who knows how long? Until someone like me / finds it...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “…let there be willingness to declare / rivalries dead. Just long enough to let our / guards down. Admit to broa...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “What we know / about ourselves / will cause problems again. / New ones, as / spectacular as those once / entang...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “What does / it take to rekindle the language / of youth—run, kick, jump, lift?”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “I want you to just / act your age, not your trauma size…”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Always / avoiding uncomfortable mirrors means / never hearing, No .”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”

by Jordan Trethewey “‘ Divine hummingbird enrich my life and love, so that my lover will want only me.’ - anonymous prayer​.”

by Jordan Trethewey “The Great Curmudgeon / stands in front of a wall / with a face painted on it. / He proceeds to talk it off.”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “To worry about reaching 80 must / seem indulgent to child ghosts, come / bearing witness to / what might have h...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “If the heart / is the compass we’re lead by, /the mind uses repetition as a / way to adjust in a new pastoral /...

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “…land, / not touched by man once, / became commodity to be stolen…”

Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “Had overwhelming desire / to one day be called, / Daddy !…”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy must keep blow dryers handy / Should they remain moist/ for long periods, their fertile minds / produce beautiful blooms.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy estimates it’ll get this high / And soon.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Don’t mistake Judy for Karen / A Judy blends in by design / No unnecessary fuss.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy believe land fulfills its purpose / No need to re-purpose, nor consume / more than required to survive in comfort.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Well, Judy, we tried our best.” / “We certainly did, Judy. / They chose to bake themselves.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Lauren Kenney) “Men constantly tell Judy / Get off your high horse! / But she will not dismount / in the face of patriarchal / Capitalist condescension.”

by Jordan Trethewey “Sometime after her hard military man died, / the old widow next door began to lure / neighbourhood pets to her unused red barn.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy continues the tradition of few / Shines her light in dark corners, while / new governments dismantle the solidly built.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy is tired. What does / it take to rekindle the language / of youth—run, kick, jump, lift?”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Hunters cannot hunt without prey / Gatherers cannot gather without / forest. Judy believe in balance / sustainable approaches—”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy believes in mothers. They deserve / medals for being themselves. For existing.”

by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney) “Judy are not water resistant / Spongy skin absorbs liquid / but does not stop Judy…”

Spillwords.com presents: Hemingway Vs. Stevens, a poem by Jordan Trethewey, who writes poetry, drama, children’s literature ...