Monday, April 20, 2020

When ‘Nothing’ Seems Appropriate


we ache lonely nights or pillage dark farms.
to have it delightful as to hold it deadly.
our dreams by confetti our pantomime kisses
if but trauma alerts fires. such excellent
waterfalls, if but sheer nakedness, insomuch
as desperate clutching; to cleave for deaths
to have loved wires, so penchant, so floral.
burlesque piety or estranged treasures or so
devastated it took years: our hopeless hatred
our cryptic silence, to divest our identity. it
would be affliction, unraveled or purchased.
marquise pendulums so captured by fury
or abandoned to the lost and found. the axis
speaks rain or chains in segments while waves
deviate at corners. it was heaven such
aesthetic waistlines or appropriate leniency
such inappropriate torture; miserable
calligraphy at hallway doors to find in love
a sculptress. our years reflected in deep
fables, as to listen so closely it became ghosts.
to hurt like authors to live such aches if but
too far into barns. such symbol, such ember,
where I need to unchoke Love; this congruent
feather at trenchant pearls while embers
increase colors. taboo texture or alien angst
such wounds this nix but deliverance.

PS.

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