Saturday, December 31, 2022

Sullen Admiration

 

I didn’t when it was time—stronger sunrise, arranged to move swiftly: kisses in dark rooms, red eyes in photographs, softer sounds and sudden chills. Diamonds speak a language, death must rule, the cycle demands this—and long lives the ape, so uncouth, longer lives the ignorance … so exclusive the clubs, writhing rites, needing something sensitive; aglow and ruined, exposed to elements, transfixed, at a slower pace—to imagine what turns human buttons. Traipsing woodlands, the sylvan flaming, a neater sunrise, a darker ring, with souls rummaging spirits. Her poetry is sublime, instrumental utility, weaving in, and wheezing outward—the fragments lingering, appetites waxing, and Love is waiting for clarity … caves and arts, cloves and wishes, surreal fury. A valley of pearls, tumbleweeds, briers, sullen desert, and one coke machine.   

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...