Monday, December 13, 2021

Night Has Wailings

 

upon wingspan, to croak in space, so much animal in spirit.

never to get enough of dying, new invention, grieving the air.

friends in turmoil, needing to protect self, milk dripping—needing to fly; waxing mean, living in deaths, promising so many the emptiness of guts.

sure sacrificial, the beast bleeding, it took a wound.

so afraid of you, so in amore for you, hating this brought to surface feeling; damaged like wreckage, holy like Magdalene, or a lover with no words.

colorless, dumb bled, so crucial to be last to attune.

so precious, to see her with child, so much reasoning, knowhow, blush, forgiveness for naivety.

            somewhere further, struggling a dungeon, eating fire;

            the ache of ignorance, beauty in coming to life, dead

            into a rhythm; more honey, color come forgiveness,

            so palatial, so sick.

the doctor is winning, a lone mountain, the professor is zeroing closer.

much freedom lost, penalty for loving, ached, confused, damaged for pure sacrifice.

so close it turns pain; so close can’t say wilderness; so distant can’t call a coin on its head.  

Effervescent Waters

  The maze of an interior thought. The gown upon emotion. Sun signs; moonlit. Feeling aged. With something looming. I wonder if aches are we...