MICHAEL STANTON

Michael Stanton is a multi-media artist from New England who has dedicated his life to art that gives him happiness. He has studied English in college, and has attended numerous courses through Yale and Florence Academy. Follow him at @michaelwilliam.art.

THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME

My cleverness dissipates when I hear 

the Klavierstück in F major.

Mozart was nine. When you get a cat 

you know it’ll die, but do it anyway.

If it should not, 

maybe you wouldn’t have 

at all. 

Fingers tap glass in silent darkness:

a centipede alive, and its hundred legs 

buckling down Baldwin, rocking to the melody

of the Charles that echos

sweet and lullaby-like as the cherisher should. 

Insects enlarged in humidity 

and water-weight engulfed. 

When you plant a tree, you wouldn’t think

of it falling, but that’s death, too.

It gets fed from Venus up above.

It’s what keeps it from getting framed into this 

little, depthless 

black box. Of love,

your heart is flaming and swelling up 

and I feel it with clarity. It breeds sadness that 

deadbeat dads are the ones who never cheated 

on their wives. 

It’s always revolutions with you. 

You, that gives me the best sunsets.

People say to not let love blind you, 

and what it is I’m still staring into? 

Read Michael’s work and more in Solum Journal Volume I.