Friday, March 11, 2022

Made Complex For Simplicity

 

the difficulty is simplicity

the mounts and hills, the violent terrain

the gnawing gnat, made

resplendent with shame.

 

so gray with fever, every light is dim

simplicity begins to churn again

duplicity is rage  

in willing one closer, I drive one

further—into space, time

and anguish.

 

a palm of beads, deaths in braids

unbridled acrimony, glitter on

pain

some plate filled with weeds, to

partake with seasoning, to make it

delicate, sweet, merciful.


to live off of crumbs

excited to stumble by—

on accident, for it wasn’t meant

the greatness of the miracle—

compacted by the impossibility

of its actuality.

 

tender harmonica, softer flute, in time

to form roses, made of seed, soil

slander; accursed to exist

forbidden to live, some fierce ink

 

in those omissions:

 

the fullness of the raft

the leaping of the frog

at a given moment, seeming divine;

the galloping of the inferno

the horse watching with grace

wings span across the forest.

 

I come to nothingness, as I

entered, the world is empty.

 

pains made amaranth, at peak in

a dome in a time in a space; the

easiness of simplicity, the harsh

cruel impact of easiness—much

pride comes with complexity.

 

made

philosophic, holding by breastplate

helmet to concrete.

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