Sunday, June 4, 2023

Sky Watching

 

By rumor to have execution. From depth a curse. I held a dam. I couldn’t breathe. Neat, humble suffocation. Like he said, those odd things inside, better, a lie, nothing else inside. Life was depicted, picturesque, pictorial, threshed, throttled, baffled. Marks in flesh, asking questions, Love so despondent, simple things, they die harshly. We desire deeper seas, plumbing earth, bare toed horizons. I couldn’t feel much. It took time. It was called desensitization; well, I thought so. Trauma, our curse, thrown into violence, facing vehemence, acidic bowels, vomit into deserts. Bodily sky-shakes, an inner clarinet, reaping silence, woven into undulations. Days have sullen nature, rain pours, at moments, religion is desolate, a difficult space, with seeming deafness. Upon a temblor, to return, needing circuits, fey, sunrise—in tears, so thankful, still, at moments, unfeeling. I sat there, speaking to a wall, sweating in an armchair—wild inheritance, willows wafting, Job submitted, most see a bet, trying to dispute value, apologizing for Divinity. By rumor to have execution: needing numen, afire, asunder, a kettle’s dialogue: wailing! Love bounced back. Filled by splendor. In time, with woes, to have sung sufferings.   

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...