Saturday, December 24, 2022

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Most often it’s aphorism—the rain, soothing weather, or too cold to speak; biblic sacrifice, tender welkin anguish, adjectives astray, pain like a blessing; without you I wouldn’t fly, with you I have presence, so religious the woes we chance; find me entertaining, gathered with berries, sipping and playing grownups; the way we dance, the song we waltz, so many becoming ballerinas … softer carpets, fields of woods, cypress beginnings, and cottonwood shacks; before our time, the sun made glorious, and sound was amazing: putting words to items, discovering intonation, compared to a soul in romance. Character and charisma, the sky would fall, if ever a delicate slip—by survival of the castle, by claim of those clouds, so cirrus, so amethyst, so tender violet; floating away, nothing quite matters, aside for that feeling. And each outfit is purity, music made mellifluous, each thread count testifying to patience.       

Time was Brief

    With deeper allure—to ward off ghosts—melancholia is an empire. Such dialogue confuses—: one wrestling despair. It was remote living, in...