Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Silver Backs Are Often Gentle

 

unwet, dripping pride, such tiff melancholy.

to sweep fragments as parts sung humans—

those mahogany women such fierce aches—

a language desperate by fire or a woman so

ivory a man conflicts: if beautiful is pain,

if daughters hate at times, if weight hangs

upon a psych. we know it hurts. we ignore

its poison. we unfeel its pleasure. —by ink

so impure so impious its angst is pure peril—

more valleys more swamps while they never

fathom pure dissociation. those persons he

worships—those dead icons—those peg

sparks! such to admire, or even lust-after

where pain took his place, or damages gutted

his ship—such precious deaths, such brooks

in heaven, while perceived as too smart!

so neural! so dynamic. while feeling alone.

those fires her furnace if to take his rain! by

lost chemicals, or midnights at a screen, so

impure, such a heart, or too much into ethics.

she might ghost-out. so under flame. where

most don’t see her. too stoic, for it hurts, so

estranged, a dear woman, into ruined monsoons.   

PS.

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