Tuesday, January 4, 2022

I Identified an Old Persona

 

looking higher, healed in segments, seized by

lose; some machine’s malfunctioning, and over

yonder, meadows and mulberries, kite fights,

and drums. an issue in man, some wildness

in those webs, inner tepees, outside prints.

 

            no one can be sincere, unless sincere, at

            dark rings, silent symphonies, burgundy

            scars;

            it would happen—a quickening glance, if

            resonance is conflict, ancient kinship,

            feeling a person come into breathing.

 

love is sparring, fencing, aging softly;

marquise handball, wilderness addiction;

description by its omission, tender

ropes, deeper anguish. coming into rain,

feeling intrigued, looking back at beauty.   

Subtle Gesture

  Like a vision it probes—a subtle expression. Love has mastered subtleties. I perish with each one. It was never our luxury—sable honest ey...