Monday, October 17, 2022

Immortal Classical

 

Mythos becomes identity. The woman becomes an idol. So made to avoid each other, makes it easier for souls saying, “Hello!” Over years one arrives to meet self. I can’t see her … she seems incredible … this makes for disappointment, disaster, and dysfunction: no person should be perceived that way. Logos and bias; rust and dust; slow deterioration.

     Childhood memories grow fussy. A first kiss grows hazy.

     Knowing how he responds, learned behavior, shows genius.

She has mastered instruments, desires fierceness, maybe too, a delicate palm.     So intense in its crescendo—so classical, to have begun at 3 years of age.

            In trying to remain cheerful, in presence of an animal, so gorgeous, it aches, hurts, passion has never been sated. We should stop here. We should permit intuition to sing. In all of understanding, recruit knowledge, so sore its beauty.

            Poise of Cicely Tyson. Style of Audrey Hepburn. Penmanship of Maya.     To travel into time, to move particles, to return to an extraordinary creature.

            Made immortal—to angst and concern, to have lived in my arms.

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...