Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Introspective Ribs


We carry mazes, searching by binoculars, our phones answering quietly—our wires alert, our minds sifting, at cares, concerns—so blurry: we become nonchalant, this space for survivors, our feelings gated neatly: semi-sensitive, maneuvering iron, captured by photographs: peering at nonsense, so counseled by behaviors, relocated at sudden points: beauty is absent, where beauty is present, so I deny you to protect self: our rejected worlds, our flowers wilting, our souls carrying boulders: at black insistence, ruined by something indicative, while forgetting this competitive race: chasing song, effaced and wronged, while rebuilding this coping image: so salvaged, picking innocent peaches, stirring repetitive behaviors: those liquid pomegranates, those discolored emotions, while realized as a cool headed, unfeeling agent: our deep talismans, those carried defenses, while reality needs those choices: this person for others, this person for some, while harboring particular insecurities: so concerned with nuance, where we must line up, else hell is sold as heaven: at sudden moods, our bodies decoding our nerves, while Love has read and reread Naïve: our cherry sodas, this small Danish, or so alarmed by misbehavior: this winking sky, this blinking wall, so dearly impressed by camels: those nerve-endings, this relaxed bobcat, while it felt silly to fantasize: our in-mind dynasties, our in-heart palaces, such polish, such missing links: our pegs shimmering, our cries misread, our bodies thrown to icy fires: our private dreams, our dry flesh, so rewound and sold for dreams: those indoctrinations, our maneuvering selves, while many are fitted without prior notation: (so relaxed but edged, so concerned but indifferent, so at life feeling familiar: this city of tension, those rare encounters, while many men have fallen for faces: such screams, such realization, while lunacy is blamed upon art: to re-sense eyes, to discern through a smile, while becoming something cold: this life alteration, our souls suffocated, our brains yelling at thoughts: this vineyard of grapes, this barefoot damsel, while believing in this possible intoxication: so unfamiliar, so lit with fire, so gone, so with needs: our trapeze, those whispering gates, so sealed, so new with inversion, our best challenging something murky: those reflective thoughts, this reflexive self, at haste to display this considerate person): or back to indifference, so restructured by repetitiveness, so at war with blunt encounters: as power is harvested, or souls are vying, while authenticity is both challenged and demeaned: (we operate accordingly, we play chess according to rules, we dance according to movements: such religiosity, this instruction through numbers, this intellectual map: those green leaves, those defined horizons, or better, our letters bend accordingly: so passionate in private, so ecstatic in private, or so practical in society: those immovable blocks, this persistent water, while land is sodden and soggy): other sayings, this hard-won resistance, while one must entertain resilience: those misprints, this duplicate culture, our ties so tight, those heals, those veins, or more to comportments: but structure for dreams, and life for determination, so threatened by potentiality….

…so many mistakes, this training field, so barricaded by interior operations: or liberated by rules, or liberated through persons, while often unbeknownst to agents: we engage nature, while observing so little, as moved by a slight realization: we hear partially, we react before full pictures, while often apologizing: we numb feelings, we numb inhibitions, we enjoy particular misthoughts: we shift at seconds, we sing inclusiveness, while praying for exclusivity: those intrepid doubts, those beginning frustrations, or this churned captivity: looking for something majestic, while wresting about longevity, or ill-informed about maintaining majesty: those cold mornings, this sober feeling, as tires spin: settled in behaviors, our examination of others, while mirror-clarity seems obscure: this set by thoughts, those images by self, this particular air—as brains travel, while reality seems to clash, those interior precepts: such concrete loses, while pushing this carcass, designed by behaviors: to wonder deeply, concerning this person, while souls are re-suited: at something impossible, dearly at skies, while sensing this lot in man: (those abstract exercises, this abstract college, or realized in relativism: while negotiation is plural, while intelligence negotiates, where ignorance suffers while flourishing): our beings soaring, speeding through experiences, plus, this tussle with melancholia: at something sweeter, at interior dictates, while becoming mentors: at remorse and sin, studied and found, so misprinted, searching for iron, finding joy in abstracts…. 

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...