Unnamed Season by Jules Travers | One Poem Only

One Poem Only · May 26, 2026 · 2m

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Unnamed Season

Jules Travers

He lives in a peaceful territory

of his own,

relatively well-defined.

In conversation with his selves,

he navigates daily weather,

rainbows,

mirages,

sinkholes.

Now,

can he still live with himself,

with you?

Your eyes align,

two shapes of water join, sun-lit,

know themselves reflected.

He feels your arms.

He broadens,

flattens

and retreats,

enters spaces filled by air

and phantom.

He waits, he listens.

Voices surface.

He slips into marrow

lit by the gasping mouths

of scattered self-sustaining…