Written In Cantor Dust
The writings and other creations of Rudy Cantor
All poetry
Scraps of paper written in a cryptic hand float and dance before you, fluttering in an unseen draft as that of a cave opening to the surface somewhere out of sight.
- Alterity (2018)
- My shoulders will never be broad and wing-scarred,
- Vaem (2018)
- The obelisk watches, silently--
- An Argument (2019)
- Cotton Balls, Gemstones, and Shadows (2020)
- The cotton balls have begun to flee from the sky, at least,
- The Void-Touched (2020)
- What is it about the void-touched?
- On Getting Better As Everything Else Gets Worse (2020)
- ...what a time for recovery.
- Wish (2020)
- I wish I had it in me to be surprised.
- Shoes, And The Path They Walk (2018)
- These shoes were not made for walking.
- Scars/Stars(2019)
- Tonight I looked in the mirror, and saw that my scars had faded.
- Protagonist (2020)
- My past does not show in my hair
- Voidfriend (2020)
- Would that we could hide in the dark together, you and I,
- Not Exactly Minimalism (2020)
- We will not have heirlooms.
- Barbed Wire (2020)
- Perhaps it says something about you,
- After The Tower Comes The Star (2020)
- This tower is crumbling, that much is clear--
- Heart On Legs (2020)
- What faltering steps we must take,
- En Route (2021)
- It is a particular flavor of cruelty,
- Voidstar (2021)
- The last time I tried this, it ended in holy hellfire.
- Hierophant (2021)
- They say there is no healer
- Paladin (2021)
- Sometimes / I cannot help my frustration
- Tether-Tied (2021)
- You were born, unfortunately, to the gravity of this world,
- Mistletoe (2021)
- Why is it that we / are the only ones who remember
- Migration (2021)
- It is the heat of the summer sun that loosens and melts away
- Propagate (2021)
- The soil of this place is dry dust over hard clay,
- Modern Love (2021)
- This half-existence is a curious thing.
- N Train, 4:41AM (2021)
- The world spins so much more quickly here.
- Final Destination (2021)
- I've always known I would never be your final destination.
- Enough (2021)
- Perhaps it is well we do not root here just yet.
- November (2021)
- Have you ever noticed that November is an emotion?
- Backwards Marching (2021)
- The sand never left your shoes, did it?
- Shower Thoughts (2022)
- You know you'll never manage / to boil away your flesh
- Tesseract (2022)
- As a child, I read about folding space,
- Airglow (2022)
- The sky never gets dark here,
- Pale Blue Dot (2022)
- There's something in the cloud bands tonight,
- Dawn Chorus (2022)
- Will I ever hear the birds singing, I wonder,
- Countable (2022)
- The true lie of calculus is that discreteness can ever become the whole.
- Good Enough (2022)
- I worship at the church of the Good Enough--
- On Sanctuary (2022)
- They say that grief is love with nowhere else to go--
- Ghost of a Fallen Star (2022)
- All I can do is hope that someday,
- Candles and Honey (2022)
- How confounding it is--perhaps even a betrayal--
- Clarity (2023)
- There is a love that shines clarity,
- Crystal Children (2023)
- We, whose hearts flagged as summer vowed
- So Below (2023)
- Dead Air (2023)
- You do not know me anymore.
- All The Strangers Came Today (2024)
- Let us make ourselves clear, first of all;
- Culdesac (2024)
- I cannot overstate the extent to which this place is anathema to me.
Return home.