Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Butterfly House


…on trial internally, whispering pure redemption, and so much for dying: this acidic feeling, this acidic tear, and years at torments: this phantom lying, this ghost laughing, our aches to koi-fish—and dungeons rebuking, staring at justice, to mimic a scoundrel—this cosmic voice, this inner arc, and those loud cables: as pure pain, our thrust for Africa, our years in Europe: this stand-still America, those Asian cries, or purple as something intimidating: our guts by music, our beats by denim, or Prada esoteria: where passion is tender, this bag of fish-feed, or this package of admiration: our achy spines, our laughing women, or reputations dependent upon hiding skills: indeed, those closets, this mental armoire, and terror as wombs to cut through oceans: those bridal eyes, this internal war, to give life to one under-graded: our diamond tours, our Versace pearls, and, moreover, this delicate creature at wars with militias: our tatted membranes, our gutty alibis, or tears to windowpanes: this curious butterfly, this ragged dragon-friend, or threshing(s) peering at golden rakes: this poison in grass, this nibbling maniac, to awaken to Love screaming: this igloo ache, this igloo heart, this hut raging through Vietnam: our mimes whispering, our pantomimes puffing, or days at limbo: this park-bench, that straightjacket, or those padded rooms: our child’s embarrassment, or pure elation, while tugged for failing and feeling good: those statuesque eyes, those elysian eyes, those inquisitive, talkative eyes: to infuse Jesus, as nearby exhaustion, our apologetics for something unseemly: at gut battles, or diarrhea, or spitting up phlegm: those remarkable legs, those undercurrent thighs, or years to hating your guts: this running dead-man, this intervention, this doggy dog existence: as dogma laughing, our country simplicity, our Grecian features: otherwise, at treachery, or laughing with Madonna, our inner world quite personal: this professional sex, this lavish life, or years too young for authentication….     …we’re sick creatures, provoked and dying, if but three nights: at mnemonic kites, or Rihanna lies, while tugged by resilience—this tarot faith, this carriage of feathers, or days so gone speaking with Elijah: at no-where prose, feeling at something split, where Love laughs while killing a daughter: this fugitive voice, this hostage heart-keep, or this terrified kidnapping: at voltage regardless, at treasures, despite whispers, or feeling good writhing internally: this aphotic Alcatraz, this attractive inseam, or this California panacea: our unknown selves, our inner encyclopedias, or this life-giving inrush: to see a picture, and feel a stranger, where psychs are head to swords: those steep regrets, this aesthetic redemption, or immortal etiquette: where passion dies, as purely analytical, while suffering desiccation: or erectile problems, looking at inner demons, or a second so engrossed Fed are running: this package of pills, our ineffable dreams, or lacing for puffing and crying their caskets: this gift to souls, our mortal goals, while hating for Love despises herpes: that tore lullaby, those quiescent voices, or passages to graves enslaving our beloved: this lilting Lilith, this academic woe, or present resistance: as erstwhile creatures, sipping Levert, and blazing our liquor—peering at costumes, our opalescent women, so involved with desecration: those scented blankets, this gift for seduction, while a man runs deadly attempting to court Calypso: that dangerous woman, this selfhood phantom, or that inmost cinema….

…we laugh with timidity, we ghostly a spell, at evening eyes—those lizards gunning, this machine-salt, this winter’s curse: as blames thrown, but character lost, while onlookers percentage a scent of reality: this fine music, this fine damsel, those controlled legs: our nuclear Holocausts, our Jewish gates, or this New Jerusalem: as discovered song, this rivalry sentiment, those anklet cries: this aglet muzzle, this moving magic, or tears to love a bit chaotic….        

Empty Space

    I’ve been in this space before—it seems natural, the affection of energies. Such interwoven moods, a series of underpinnings. A differen...