Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Beacon Lakes

 

So blasé at segments, deafening joys, imbalanced pains.

 

I was chasing you until I escaped me. 

 

Church. Work. & taxes. This is cycle. 

 

Pictures are a blur. We have ideas, ideals, self-accusations. Earth, sky, or dungeon. 

 

I spent time trying something as its blain, southern dreams, northern concerns, battled inside.

 

Loving you was easy: I didn’t know why. 

 

Temperamental souls, burning earlobes, science has answered a great deal: I fathom too much, life comes back to particular feelings, days at thinking—certain phenomena. 

 

Tectonic prayers; oceanic depth; seized by sullen joys. 

 

In taking something—she gave in return. I wonder if we know this: intention is partway fulfilling its curse.

 

Palms of goosegrass, arms in marshweed, metaphorical blues—jazz so sweet, a night in it. 

 

Nostrils filled with infatuation, just a younger lad, it meant so much to feel it, to dance in it, to lose interior projections. Nothing tangible! 

 

I keep saying words are puzzles. Poets are searching for combinations. If to draw from energies, dialogue becomes cameras. 

Strumming a Harp

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