Monday, May 27, 2024

Unknitted Mittens

 

 

The stream is unlikely—to locate fevers, to catch eternity. Oh’ weeping willow, charmed we may presume, alive before it ruined; by southern winds, by hallow valleys, some with flutes, others with violins. I could sing to skies, sullen at a distance, aware time never sits—as moving, as instrumental, as a caveat to humanity. I feel like remedies, akin to destruction, such mellifluous silence—disputed dialing, to remeasure perception, the keys we piano inside. A daily checking in, a melic beat, perfected over a hundred years; sound seeming tyrannical, lights churning, to stand in Awe. Those soundless seconds, awakened by susurrous sounding, a little perturbed by insistence; if to adore observation, as it merged with sacredness, to imagine sages before incrementation. Fretting incarnation, fretting the deep sleep, amazed by consciousness; dreams we may sell, enchantments we may dial, brains keep messages. To have power over a thought, to walk into a room, so great the insentience. A numbing to life, a conviction in turn, playing drums with one’s brains. Such dear accountability, the dreaded nap, silence can’t last forever. Dearest murmuring, long distance inducements, California uncertainty; to ride a camel, by needle of skies, by walls higher inside—those strumming doctors, pace of a machine, instincts of wildness; a captured feeling, fret & farm, trying to meet life where it began—attempting to become incipience, running into justice, found weaving by the gates.

Time was Brief

    With deeper allure—to ward off ghosts—melancholia is an empire. Such dialogue confuses—: one wrestling despair. It was remote living, in...