Monday, January 21, 2019

Between Mirrors


I see you, this feral invert, those wild wings: our disgraced image, our prideful hearts, our redeemed cultures: this promise in time, those mental fens, our delicate thoughts—as men running, our women churning, our seconds flushed by joy: to live by dying, to die by living, or so content deaths are swarming: at refined chatter, over China teas, enveloped in ambiguity: those gorgeous curvatures, our restricted ladders, at terrors concerning something intimate: our motion brains, those motion images, our molten lava: to sip remarkable, those rare creatures, while pitching arrows at mediocrity: this fair creation, this minor fact, while a bit trepid: if but our souls, fleeing their cages, our balance would run haywire: if but our minds, at every joy, our bodies would decay: but this is life, an instance of reality, an impetuous mentor: to sense something delicate, this business attire, our robotic approaches: to see you, flying gently, while filled with expectations: those angry legs, those violent arms, or that sky-neck—at vetted consistencies, or an unvetted animal, where angst forms its hive.     I hear you, this cautious, overworked ingredient: those long hours, those chilled wines, your morning toffee: at deeper thoughts, at crispy yearnings, while so close to existence: that partial friend, those partial realities, our hope exhausted mirrors: but some are mystic, even livid existence, at life with both spoon and fork: those intimate discussions, outwitting fate, while creating legacies: at converse with life, debating happenstance, and overwhelming existence: those rare inventions, this rare reality, while soaring into war-spaces: indeed, an inner essence, wrangling over magic, tempered for success: Olympian ankles, mud-ridden, rusty toes, and tattooed calves: this place in Eternity, those songs so emphatic, our resurrection with contempt.     …we would to chance, this life of roses, this internal clock: our misled souls, churning courageously, while buffing binoculars: this space in passion, those clashing appetites, while requesting nothing less: our innovation, our excited presence, those undulations: as fluttering deliveries, our nervous voices, our waltzing charms: as pulled into life, while at tetras with life, so invested in existence: as living proposition, an internal thermometer, running into passion: or aloof and tugging, yanking at pride, falsely reserved: at souls this region, at something for adults, while feeling young: our purple clouds, our enveloped worlds, our taupe and black branches….

…mental taekwondo, or, namely, a curse, where time stands at your stepstool: this marvelous curse, this trenchant brush, or this comb for existence: our remarkable feelings, our wrenching hunches, to relax something pensive: at Marshal Arts, this intellect movie, our interior cinema: that clear face, our Neutrogena, our inside-out skin: this familiar space, where exterior is demanding, while internal clocks are at peace: this year to silence, this gentle, vicious, outlandish creature: to sin willfully, to repent deliberately, to turn, churn and demand something breathing: our forces at memories, our dance with music, at something feeling familiar: those cozy grins, where art has become symphony: that luggage unpacking, this space healing, if but eternity this lock: but more to seeing, this vixen in chime, while removed from existence….   

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...