Saturday, February 25, 2023

When It Opens

 

Listen for her voice. Obey the churchbell. Understand where you dwell. Birds withstand weather. Lizards roam deserts. Elephants search for water. I have come to worship. I have come for cleansing. Upon the altar, I’ve gripped horns. I was baptized. I was given a name. They say the sun will again reign. Many a blue scar—simplistic blocks—writing should be interesting. Peregrines on high—through you we live, wings a meter by ambition. I have lived in you, fretting friendship, humans are conglomerate emotions. To commune may overwhelm, hardness of breath, kef seeming like torture—to understand where it came, where it dwells, where it went. I might assert on reality. If to make a claim. You might agree—share it with a spirit—and come to contend with thoughts. Much of life is freedom, beauty, despite, redundancy—an absurd air, a condition, as it links communities: the face in its mirror, looking familiar, can’t quite grasp its song; a lake with ripples, a face moving, can’t quite solidify its contour. Looking upon skies, seeking escape, if for a time, to find motion, to have experience, to become mystic in horizon.     By force into a kingdom, gates demolished, to lay a flag, and announce holiness; a greater soul, magnificent glory, to know elements, shift stars, praise interior—aside a nature, if it becomes, it might destroy itself.     I reread reflection, some things change, others struggle, it becomes insecurity.  

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...