Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Not so Casual


…such explosive chemistry, our eyes spawning, our souls grumbling: at midnight thoughts, at midday rehearsals, our evenings settled in prayer: if but to silence, this unspoken loudness, this treacherous advisor: to quake midair, to float upstream, our bodies purple and crimson: as souls collectively, spinning with glee, to arrive so late for practice: as thrust by converse, or seasoned with passion, so alive, so distorted, and so resurrected: that nervous twitch, this achy balance, as something councils our intestines….

…we live as saints, or delighted sinners, or something confusing our compass: our mental grayness, our quasi-purgatory, or pure ecstasy: our mystic moon, our blasé moments, at something perceived as unreachable: those simmering sighs, our keenly excitement, where songbirds serenade: this winter’s cloak, our mental daggers, while thrown into attraction: such high expectations, such pedestal dynasty, while provoked by something irregular: such musical madness, this kiss of clay, afforded three sights at heaven….

I come to terms, with this mysterious mirror, plucking at admiration: such driven souls, such vocal arithmetic, such cubic reality: if but by doings, or song sung softly, while inhaling cryptic aroma: our fair abandon; our fairer sunsets; while external properties effect internal habitats: such running water, such blazing sophistication, where we wonder about orientation: this loud tracking device, those desert studies, where realism slipped through crevices: such delight, while noticed from regions, where candidates vie for whispers: that soft voice, those valiant cries, at something too vivacious: our shrewd reliance; our cordial banter; or controlled, mainly possessed, while afflicted by atmosphere.

I relish gently…those bold, creative and dear insights: our years with readings, our minds with character, to reach as one longing for breath: sensual attraction, our senses paraded, our clocks in reverse: such youthful sins, such preservation, while climbing our mountain—this interior cave, filled by rocky sketches, made to live by stimulation: our dancing words, our stick figure images, our glorified bulls: at life with troubles, at alienation with friends, as so enrapt’d our world is passing away: at landscape panic, but so engrossed, while pitching pebbles: those inrushing eyes, those delicate muscles, where life would regret resistance.

…we live religion, taken by something holy, if but to rinse and shave and come so close: at incandescence, or glow-fires, but removed from public squares: to waltz with silence, to reach pantomime, to feel so elated by private sensation: our rabid sockets, our magic underbrush, while so ecstatic our tears are rivers: to wash with pride, this inverted soul, to carve by virtue: those arête feelings, this admiration of habits, while both are with transgression: this face in music, our days at dejection, while feeling delighted to deviate: such reality, in something so brief, while hard-pressed to redeem existence: our jaded souls, our lyrical silence, our symbols jousting midwaves: our jet white fence, this reaching for illusion, while sudden upon a stranger: so embroidered; or so crocheted; at roots speaking about Promise….    

Worn Senses

    Let the gift be faith. Many at war. We emphasize it. Many ask, why? How it feels to own promise. A man chides his understanding, realizi...