Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Cycle Is Concrete

 

I would outwit a problem or sing with a siren a bit keen on weaving

 

a bus might whisk by     windows filled with faces

poverty holds a vendetta.     aqua scented perfumes     water mixed with mud    

tomorrow is unforgiving.

 

I met Jeremiah. each verse stung. I shared with her soul.

 

nickels or dimes or quarters, but never coper.

 

the sun was chilly the raisin tree was bleeding the patchwork was indecent.

 

color is choking. memories become hallucinations. the plaint has been made.

 

we know it when we see it. charisma is in the breeze. we are left with a palm of walnuts.

 

the winds are fierce, chipmunks are gathering, hunters are sipping beers.

 

organic attraction

or fury in flesh at a sawmill proving our status. Mrs. Wounded Wings, the moon is watching, it testifies to the sugarcane fields.

 

in a mazeway, eating blackwater, sleeping without dreams

or in a hallway fighting a large tulip troubled to awaken

at wars in bellicose lands reading a foreign journal.

 

an unvocal scream into a lilac azure beneath mauve colored grass.

gray fur or beige fences while pain sits in recesses: it hoots or growls or meows.

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