Friday, September 23, 2022

She’s an Intriguing Mask

 

Pollen was heavy in the winds. We kept sneezing. Noses were runny. I remember fire entering, an old associate, her math in a new scientist. The gravity of the weeds, caterpillars eating leaves, tonight is both corn and beans. A soul eats starches, a few vegetables, and a palm filled with steak. So determined to ignore self—follicles filled with humanity, a wood raft in the distance; a tender mystery in periphery, metallic smoke, logistics silhouetted upon the walls; groping as it’s done, sunflowers beneath the sun, days made restless for understanding—the chase of times, baffled inside, trying to re-saddle a hunch. Hairline frustration. Refusal to see—as it stands in spaces, so close, and further apart; (dreaming my dream, lost and found in my dream, restored in my dream). Much transfusion. Captured on the insides of sanity, on the outskirts of stability. Most savage souls—seeing as it happens—churned unto inversion of self; deep soil, pebbles bled, sky spigots dripping causality.   

The Sentiment

  The Sentiment    It tends to matter—each pursuing holy armor. It leans into a desire to feel pure, clean, sacred and such. I never underst...