the lemur’s lungs
such wailing elephants or an orangutan’s palm. to enjoy devotion or to live
expulsion our pomegranates with sin juice. our demeanors our Zoom postures with
so much more to exist.
I have soul to
unveil or patience to reseal where it was holy those years. sure sacred essence
such as it reveals such purple faces.
I have gates in
there, some guarded by crocodiles, others inviting the public in. sour gnawing
or gnat certified as some creature in winter; torn curtains painted chairs or television
watching them sleep.
an uncut cantaloupe
as scents waft so delicate in its summer. to define as listening to win as
distressed or to lose as disobeying etiquette.
autumn leaves pile
in our garden. a rake is not answering. many are complaining.
by beauty of language by aggression
when wrong or sheer defenses no one is listening to.
it seems
appropriate to lose in essence when nothing is blossoming. by dear excellence
by dearer heart-caves or planets where something isn’t breathing.
a man said nothing. he walked out of
anxiety. he soon debated freedom.
by a daisy in
wall-paint or jasmine scent so deliberate we fly. sure into obligation or torn
by clauses such raw necessary revisions.
at blue concrete or jasper grass while
something is distrusting its message.
“I will not do
that, even in death, for it would incriminate me.”
it was some symbol some metallic channel where
distance became too close. as we tell our mirror some raw story where behavior,
under plain examination, would destroy its self-portrait.
tender clouds or
gray horizons at foxes or chipmunks or vague distinctions; a soul he tends
inside or a vacuum he seals often such weary determination. as involved in mirages
as cursed in pleasures or suspended in tremendous loses.
