Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Inherited Rain Guts


…sun-dew smiles, or paranoid screams, or quasi-flatness: these rifts with deaths, those angular charms, as crows follow sedans: this musical ballet, this inner syndrome, and foggy glass: our voice prints, our soul prints, or better, our thought prints: this cactus flower, at breath but a night, our bats siphoning nectar….     —we examine wounds, we muffle our guitars, while some wear head-foil: this major monster, this muddied sanitarium, or hospitals becoming by horror pictures: while charged with energy, seduced by windy hopes, wherefore, our dreams become romantic: this place for us, those realistic harbingers, or this Good News Frenzy.     I felt unquiet, I feel unquiet, as it becomes this particular station: this fussy life, this fuzzy portrait, this annoying ritual: wherewith, these butterflies, or particles of vomit, or cloudy with thoughts about waves: this water cousin, this depressed chimpanzee, or this process to heal something undefined: at plural locations, at plural screams, or active somewhere close to intentionality: those growling orchids, such beauty sacrificed, or such beauty eating our guts: our Venus Fly Trap, this bug eating plant, those metaphorical designs—as lost grappling, or found but a second, to suckle with death watching: our animal tissues, those desert roses, and those hypnotic water lilies.                            

…sun-dew cries, our arid Australia, our flying foxes: such dehydration, trekking this vast sky, and hoping for spirit-water: this vital power, this dry thunder, our wintry spy-brains: to awaken in thought, such leafless concrete, such nomadic realities: if but to live, as afforded one error, where Love becomes gelada glee: those tamarin charms, those tarsier glances, those astute vervet monkeys: as aches a child, laughing while retreating, or actively ignoring internal whispers: this clinic for souls, this generalized disposition, this closeness afforded by great distance: this normal reality, this normal existence, where one is subject to appreciation: this primate life, our antiquitous genetics, and this space in bones crying: as young helicopters, or jasper engines, while becoming junkyard transmissions: as purchased by arms, to rebuild oldness, while scarred one performs pretty well: this living sanity, this secluded cave, or public life feeling observant….

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