Sunday, April 5, 2020

Friendship by Perils


I walk to you like fire. I cry names, and you prose
as if nameless. You call me, Fantast, and swig a Coors. Such
beauty, disguised in a void. We qualm or
sit the rain—a porch by rocking chairs. I shelter a vase or
scar, and you voice a childhood. Nothing could
separate nightmares. We quiver or tremble—alive—
somewhere by caves, if Love is feasting! I’m a wraith, my
Love—trespassing raw future. We kindle as esoteric—
filled with barriers, and printed souls. What is low it neither
lives nor dies: it’s a bleeding voice—a hurried harp. But
awaken a thrum, or feature a trombone, for the
heart is violin, the soul is flute. Such fiction as grays
tiptoe the symbol is music. There you are, a Sufi
soul, or there you stand, a luminous fire; for love by spirit—
an archway of winds, as we perish, moonstruck or desert.

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