Friday, November 4, 2022

Upon A Wing

 

I could never figure it out. People just appear. With or without thought, an impression is made. The clouds say it best. Those stars are in demand. The many feelings become ghostly. So many in a given day—to hate and love and be indifferent. People get so close – as to ignore each other. Art is revelational. Passion was/is unexpected. To kiss a nape, palm a neck, love with reverie and pain. The angst of holding through a storm; the battle of forgiving a best friend; the music meaning so much by tears. By a mirror pointing at us—to know what remains unsaid. Designing diamonds. Trying to outwit kitsch. Too close to feel. Too unreal to love. Too painful to trust. Just limbo, like purgatory, just sitting, waiting, searching for nourishment. To have adored in passing, what it never meant, so much close enough to heal, to destroy, or out maneuver, if expected.      

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...