Monday, September 14, 2015

She Played a Harp

There’s subtlety unto spirit to move for spirit an agitated
flame. We see it through bleakness a mirror to dangle
midair. Its flesh of my image buried in harps to grapple
with winds. I saw for vagueness a godly appearance: a
woman nursing an infant. There lived such grace, a
mix of compassion, a psaltery in the background. I heard
for tunes a texture called existence. The woman smiled
a mystic air a longing angst a wanton greed to cater. It’s
months behind for years ahead a day forward through
paradox. There’s a woman’s world a tender bruise
clearly saturated with care; and what for love, a papyrus
intended for cultured eyes. It’s a public secret for voice
to wail and ever solemn for cryptic veils. I knew for less
a pond of woes. Life echoed a future of children. I was
there, unclear, to carve a castle. Something shifts to push
a fortress where she opens to receive a friend. Why so
sullen—a repeated world, charged with love? It’s decorated
rain, ever for presence, combing through bed letters.  


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