Sunday, April 2, 2023

A Leaf Floats

 

I need to feel. I need to move, to eat wilderness, to praise monks, so estranged. Inside of notebooks. Inside of computers. Most aren’t amplified. Murmurous winters. Susurrous summers. Social disfigurement. Allusive memories. When a soul is punctuated.

I need to feel. I must move, to dance on clouds, to become autumn. The first book, my life, someone knows thunder.

The beat is hypnotic. The pain is beautiful. I need to feel.

Like trapped inside. Like running in space. Like walking in a body bag.

Pure glamor. Rectified ambition. Assumed perfection. Again, unfelt, unfeeling, not callous.

Somewhere in between.

Not feeling. Not unfeeling. Not flat enough to unfeel.

Hysterical litanies—I need those waves—rushing to know estimation.

Brushfire. Voice persistence. Instruction.

One has gone further than social rulings.  

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...