Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Forever, I Suppose

 

Class was in session. An innuendo was dropped. Most dreams are thought out. Most ironic to assert—and loving you was made easy, for a shared soul. He adores what he can’t master. It hurts to love you. You die in loving by return. Religious rites, golden eyes, nothing matters aside family. A neat pedicure. A glacial manicure. Pruning the garden on Sunday morning. I was musing upon brilliance, laughing without notice, walking pastures inside; by darker skies, dusky rivers, smoldering prayers, suffocation, eyes opened. Sold fear, in exchange for balance, never considered our magazines, our books, our participation; accumulation of stars, fractured wings, to amass density. But class was in session, those eyes spoke uncalm calmness, contradiction, a hand in its thrills, a note in its motion, forces typing with us, like spirits in the good book. But class was in session. It seemed so indelicate. Like a table, with a therapist, and others can’t move, can’t chance the winds, to speak a whisper, to gaze upon a smile, to laugh, to sense a ghost. Indeed, class was in session, men grew nervous, tugged like springs, reverberating into sunshine, proud to adore, with worries showered by affection, not much more to presume.    

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...