The Fabulous Poetry of Devon Webb
Five superb poems about falling in love, being in love and crushing hard as only Devon, a queen of wordcraft, can explain it... (Psst...I love, *love* Library of A Man...)
POSSIBILITY // IMPROBABILITY
Maybe it was the possibility
within the improbability
that made you mean so much to me
a reminder that we deserve our little miracles
& for every chance taken away
another will be given
a crossed path to make up for every ending
a beginning in the strangest of places
I knew as soon as I almost didn’t have you
that you & I were fated.
***
HYPERFIXATING
Baby I’m hyperfixating
can I stay a minute in your cool deep blue
can I just stop & stare at you
drop you a line or two
spun from an unspoken thought
Guess there’s worse boys to be
down bad for
guess there’s more terrible things to adore
guess the want of you
won’t kill me
Is there a thing as too much beauty
or can I keep writing poetry in your image
will yearning burn me out or
light my fire
dammit hand me the match
If I could pick one thing
to make my world brighter
it would be this
it would be my dream of you
a brightness dancing its way through the gloom.
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THE TWO OF US
The autism of the two of us
entwined beneath the sheets
fuck your puzzle pieces
we’re a game of tetris
where everything fits.
***
LIBRARY OF A MAN
I think you’re so used
to people not understanding you
that you don’t realise how much I do
Naturally, we’re still in the process of
learning each other
but I read you like a book: turning pages
perceiving in between the lines of your hands
oh, you have more poetry inside you
than anyone I’ve ever tried to know
but those words are yours & yours alone
I am only audience
I am only empathy
I am only resonating
collecting them all: overlong
hyper-direct text messages
with the sheer delight of a literary girl
lost in the ever-expanding
library of a man.
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THE COLOUR OF YOU
The colour of you
is purple-blue
& you’ve got a groove
that I’d like to get into
& I don’t know you well enough
to make this poem any longer
but boy I want to,
boy I want to.
Very deep pieces - I love The Library of a Man!