Thursday, December 16, 2021

City Rivers

 

the stimulant is gone, the nicotine has fled, the mind must adjust.

to loosen addiction, looking at liquor, waiting my turn—spinning out, snatching gravel, just rolled an eleven.

so metaphorical, so theological, much love for creativity; hearing as it moves, inside walls as they keep silence, above water, swimming in shame.

looked intensively. facial testimony. Love was too much to speak but passion.

I’ll leave that—to enter those valleys, raw, rough hills; coyotes watching, vultures waiting, just trying, just spacial, looking a tear unsteady.

asking for something, of course, unknown to humans, wild blessings, if to achieve loyalties.

by a flickering ember, one dynamic answer, caught, feeling pain, asking, if to sound life.

fully fitted, moving quicker, gazing into Chinese eyes, Vietnamese palms, Japanese energies.

must talk to God, must shake dice, so faceless, so ghostly, such interior Zeitgeist.

if told to choose, what does it become? solid aura, bible knowledge, graduated, her mind is an execution.         

Time was Brief

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