Sunday, January 14, 2024

Cloud Gusts

 

I reminisce upon a scent. I passed by gently.

I looked into memory.

I saw a face. 

And raspberry wines, medium rare steaks, 

a rose with petals. 

Poetry is deadly: It magnifies elements: beauty, travesty, tragedy and love.

We didn’t say, pains.

I felt a grasping, groping walls, looking at a biblic needle. 

And Love was threshed; and God was with Mercy;

to kneel, refurbish, aware in parts.

What visitation! 

Souls are powerful. How often have we met?

I reminisce upon a gesture. To see it often; to adore it each time. 

And it would be what it’s become; and it wouldn’t be if it meant nothing.

To ponder tomorrow.

To plant an oak tree.

Such wildflowers. Such grace. 

Time was Brief

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