Monday, February 27, 2023

Nothing At All

 

We would speak melody. Nothing is sufficient. Pausing to see you, sacrificing all of silence, trying to make a moment forever. Lanterns underground, ivory spears, unspoken, remorseful facts; lines in sand, seashores, seahorses, palms of sediments, soil speaking, green and plush excellence—moving motion, debating distraction, made sufficient. Cold, powerful courtship, in darkness to propose, dropdown arms, chalk became life, numbness became entrance—beginning wounds, hurt enough to stop loving, interrupted, researched, to hate the one giving life. By dungeon terror—again testing kismet, most unthought vision, most crafted artifact, rivers made of miseries. So wrong. Ethics are sacrificed. Siding into prose, tulips become mystic, marigolds dance, gallicas smile.

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...