Tuesday, September 25, 2018

I Wonder how Love Strategizes


…sufficient grace, or parallels bleeding, or holograms are wheezing: this fever for thoughts, those excruciating legs, or parachutes too far to reach: this leaping frenzy, those catchy eyes, or loquat gin: to imagine remedies, for something balm and crucial, or long stemmed pride—as captured with graces, or cuffed with humiliation, or puffing while redeeming her conscious: this fair enterprise, this dying luxury, or kept for ruined and feeling trapped: that icy forest, those icy chimps, or monkeys pitched as delicacies: those nuggets of rain, that terrific agony, or howling for feeling emphatic: this placeless future, those placeless survivors, this placeless race—while afforded one intensity, or awkward playing pretend, where many specialize at speaking incantations: that full moon, that ruby sun, or this robe disguising myriad strains….

It brings love forward; It kills so sweetly; It reminds souls of something un-captured: this tongue flippancy, this night-rising cat exhaustion, where Love was purposed as pregnant: a man dives, he digs his treasuries, either/or, to collapse or leap: as building realities, or leasing automobiles, while shadows ride into sunset: this trillion dollar vessel, or this five dollar beer, while one was sudden upon florescent bees: our lives laughing, our feelings courted, or years to rooms speaking Swahili: that photogenic smile, or perchance social merchants, to invest in life  searching for paradise: those clever wings, this clever everything, or days as nights paraded in black culture: those romantic caricatures, this intimate pantomime, to learn that Love is manic: this cut and feel good, this drench and hair clave, while destined for courage and adoring imperfect this human!          

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...