Wednesday, February 22, 2023

“Portuguese Love”

 

Say you would if time permitted the purple moon. Every thought makes love to satisfaction. Anatomy prose, leaving was with pains, art breeding, skeptic the horizon. Portuguese exotic, a man desires what he never has—honeyguide feathers; hating what she adores, loving what destroys, like a curse God renders; ebbing, shoreline illusions, baffled, deeper love, to promise a child unbeknownst to the ember; wallowing in transparency, afraid many ghosts are upon us, to adore in chalice, design, pleasures—so bent the winds are mourning. Kenya eyes, Jerusalem hips, African breasts—to let go, to ask for mercy, to bleed Jesus! Topi birds, songs favored, to announce Yahweh’s name—blood marooned, an island with fever, coming so close to forfeiting—majesty of its trance, feeling goodness, too few hallucinations.  

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...