Tuesday, November 8, 2022

“The King[s] of Sorrow”

 

The violin echoes in power—the piano of the microphone—the chiseling and danger; to desire passion, uncertain of elements, to need to live. A house filled with prayer, a dungeon so close to heart, an arc in a story the way it travels. The beauty of the monster, the poetry of the villain, the need to prove some point; a DJ with wings, two kids with fire, wondering if “The grief will let [one] go.” So much to become classified, so little to give back, if only to return to nonchalance; a soul in a bottle, a woman in arts, fleeing and flying and damn near exhausted: too much to die in her, too much to live in her, not enough space to ever forget her; a soul with wings, a damaged umbrella, so many palms of centipedes—to cry a woman’s tear, to have simultaneous fears, with power bleeding identity. In seeing where it wouldn’t go, a spirit fell asunder, with trillions aching The King[s] of Sorrow.

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...