Wednesday, June 17, 2020

If Ever They Rest Gently

like a lamb to its slaughter, or better, a lamb eager for its slaughter: those intense gazes, or the nail into gristle, or raw, terrified bone. while a man underlays existence or worthy to remain silent, where sore-essence vanished at its points. such reversed sin or to imagine as never a woman or such covert science, if we might say he was childless. by a holy whore so bent near puddles as washing in sewers; or by passion an intense second to pour into basins. so lost with you as so unstable with you while so found for living in you. by desert locusts or wild hairs as it knots, tangles by dreads: fierce fire, framed fractures, to feel, filter or presume. as dying to know you while eating leeches or fretting more domination. that peak its edge or bottled in sheer obligation.    
     (days ruminate where nights un-rinse so moved by our dreams.)     it becomes extra-images or determined distraction where it’s difficult to receive by absence. those glorious travesties those pierced wounds if but to dig into open earth.     where have we failed where we feel excellent or circled by loving, unsuspecting doves; as never a thought, for it must be perfect, while one might underestimate sincere eyes.     our third desert, our fourth ocean, estranged mostly from miracles. while concrete is trampled, or we have evidence, we have certainty, while we still feel anger.                   

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