Saturday, August 22, 2015

I Drift

He’s threaded with rain, to shift for rain, sanding mirrors.
He is I, a cosmic tornado, and one last shift. I need for
dreams, indelible dreams, haunting opaque mirrors. She
wrestles—a gray impression, angered for no good reason. 
Such confusion, to sing for blues, scraping a beige sun.
She’s ever silent, a reticent moon, confiding in fey. I see
her in waves, gripping a frown, and nonchalant; but
what to give, for pulled within, grinning sadly? I drift—
for silence, a fallen leopard, a tangled symbol; and such
for love, a yogic theme, sprinkled with bias. I trek for
earth, bound for heaven, to tiptoe thunder. I drift—to
utter woes, a captain of rain. Indeed, I pull for voice, a
bit too much, an undulation; where dreams are funneled,
to flood a stomach, piercing midnight waves. I drift—to
shelter love, a person thwarted, and thus—frustrated;
where life is order, somewhat hebetated, a fallen calf. I
shift, for one last glance, to chance a vehicle; for art is
grain, a soul for flung, to cleek a cloud.

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