Monday, February 7, 2022

Gibran Said, Speak To Them,

 

what would eyes look like on holy souls?

the sabbath as it sings, auras made about

energies, softly sung, intrusions coming

outside, to see most elegant feathers,

torn, worn, at indisputable clairvoyance;

a soul aching for favor, yenning for core

affection, saturated by the doubt.

by the creatures inside, irrefutable sources,

each web of thoughts, each banshee,

excited to dream, to sore, with much in

reticence, traffic hauntings, privacy

mythical, inner cathedrals, facing motion.

the Siege in Waco, some compartment,

reclusion in public, made richer than

seclusion in mountains. communal ink,

with souls and agendas and things good

in their eyes. justified in trespass, an art

simmering underground—to imagine

what distance lives in presence.

the treasured intensity of violin, the

wretchedness of the good feeling—turning,

spinning, shifts for regard, dedicated, the

building knit by errors. one would desire

gardens kept clean; the nearby desert, the

mountainous contempt, if tinkered with—

just in case, the onslaught will run another

fifty years; it must, like suffrage rights,

like freedom rights, there must be

resistance; it just is, reasoning means

little—history has fought for her

necessities. and over yonder, deer fall,

such curious eyes, left blemished.

Sonnet IV

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