Saturday, February 11, 2023

Gouging Dark Forest

 

Ghosts are in roses, tulips smile, desert was once glory, art has history in bone, marrow, flesh. Poetry would die, save for souls, so genteel when repaired; an outflow of spirit, she looks tired, traipsing walls, forbidden, breaking freedoms—assuming it hurts, fullness freezing, musing upon Jebusite eyes—sure to lose capacity, holding to probability, framed in excellence—certain lure, a grimace upon contact, too much disagreement—explaining every nook, so skeptic, affixed to maxims, wheezing—it craves—deep blue seas. Alike to limbo, gothic fairs, the land is spoken for—with souls satiated, fixated, pores grieving, to adore what slips away—to have heaven, to greet hell, to love like foul winds. So grand a nympho, so desperate to become … so close to needing nothing …. The prowl is crowded, wrestling for the helm, the ship is in disarray; to ask a blacksnake the time of space, to laugh for reason at an answer, where most of life is mute on answers; hypocenter focus, unnerved or fragile, her eyes would dig for recollection. The arc is fluid, too friendly, we desire raw honesty, even to reject its intensity—to live a little, to hurt like Zeus, to adore like Athena: we sound imperfect; we live a lie, as disaffected souls; so many casual pitfalls!

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...