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.       

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...