Monday, April 27, 2020

Blue Grass


we sit in patience such sweet candescence.
we die by fathoms or share by shovels:
pure beauty after it lives in us deranged
precious pleasures. our siren resounds
we thresh a city while kneading raw
happiness; cured by dangers or uncured
by hopes or flame as it succumbs to spirits.
those demanding whispers such arms
by reach or legs running beauty; as
souls distressed or joy at its canyons
lost or untied—to live wresting love
or to die welcomed by fire in fury to
have adored those eyes; our minds
repent our screams redeem the sands
by shores those specters as wisdom
or terrible winters such sweet remorse.

Time was Brief

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