Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Firebird Waters


…we’ve died before, seeking elaborate prose, and chain-smoking violence: our mothers running, our aches churning, while tiptoeing lava lakes: summer winds, spring showers, and winter sunshine: so many trenches, communicating with emotion, or realizing a deep sickness: to out-gun our minds, to outreach our souls, where caskets multiply: as angry men, or forced to behave, while something heinous is percolating: but yours is life, outmaneuvering existence, or syndicated so deeply it’s too late: we tell storyboards, we recite new language, we banter and jest and fight: something humorous, or something chaotic, a single second determining existence: but yours is laughter, where irony poses concerns, to have read a man deciding in his favor: those ancient skies, this ancient exchange, while trying desperately to outwit science: our moving minds, so indebted to pash, indeed, a troubling suggestion: to bend fire, to make water elastic, or so exposed our bodies fail to respond: such trenchant turmoil, such trenchant trauma, alive for moments that spell—this drastic electricity, this kiln human, while so relaxed and silent: those days before hope, this sad specimen, while winning loses….

It was nicety hells, so showered in blindness, so sickly connected: those blue tender cries, this foolish intake, while needing something to redeem: this dying issue, this living miracle, to imagine our bodies as fluid and passion or such to dying un-affection—this red horizon, this stormy cadence, while too proud to admit this subtle dying: as livid in arts, or spectacular a conversation, but sustaining realities may prove detrimental: this harmful facing, this cased giant, where Love is quite prophetic: oh for profound pain, such darkness cascading lights, where art became poor, or poorness became riches, while church life became vows of silence: our interior destinies, at interior taverns, so alert to Sufis: but yours is captured, and yours is printed, while adults specialize in knitting: those black clouds, those phoenix birds, at stressors over firebrand: such flippant cries, pausing to rewrite us, while sick enough to forfeit this ante. 

I fell to havens, or roomy vestibules, this talkative hallway: I died in seconds, as seeing eyes, to realize, this is living: slammed into corners, or writing too much, as wise eyes see torments: so non-representational, so self-regulated, or emotionally disturbed: those nights to patience, while broken internally, to peer at self and collapse: our deep hankerings, our low self-images, while weather is crying: so lost and relocated; so deep in web-spins; as alive a sky bent with interior: this surplus of agonies, this beautiful self-portrait, or this threshing modulated sylph: to imagine ingratiation, so froward to reality, where a small pirate manifests into an ambassador: pouring into souls, those electrical slants, while poured into realities: dying but unflinching, arising but wincing, or cured a second with such epiphany: our bolder alleys, our gates so high, our fences taking photographs: at agents occasionally, at fraudulent birth control, where something strengthens through terror-lights: this inner conference, this interior millennia, while joking pacing our hookahs.

We share cigars, sipping something gentle, and giggling at dragonflies: such scarce confusion, those days so near, where insecurities lurk in shadows: to remember insistence, to feel a faux pas, as instincts retreat: such embarrassment, that younger soul, so sensitive and biting nails: pushing stealth as wealth, refocused with head-aches, drilling for purpose but seeming unrealized: such deep encouragement, but everso silent, our minds validating something obscure: those long blocks, this carnival at corners, where bibles are instrumental.    

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...