Friday, August 12, 2022

If I’ve Said Nothing

 

By measure and cross to have mercy with devastation; by sin with wine to love like dragons, one person in his lifetime. Banished to association, so bright the bandit in pain, with Love agreeing to give one pardon. I muck it up. I damage the professor. I repent for memories are sickening. By a demon’s song, the devil’s cry, by a ritual—I’d never collaborate; so sudden to have debate; so southern to have hospitality; in ground hogs to find filth, in pigs to see deaths, in matrimony to find divorce; old casual mate, more to me than life, in eyes elsewhere, the treatment is sorrowful; to need to feel like dirt, to kill what provides deaths, to sit in a room—rocking and swaying in rain. Most can’t imagine hell. Others are living hell. Some are playing a terrific flute: Mysterium and violin; cello and clarinet; the pain we give back when too damaged to breathe.      

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...