Saturday, September 11, 2021

I Desire Unto Desire Desires Something Else

 

I see beauty, to have found her here, a man without lineage, heritage, nor a name. I have tiptoeing, shame, happy to have never felt again. seashore hysteria. ink oozing from a seahorse. the pain of the glory. risking to unveil, rolling like wheeled boxes, many vases made of seabirds. to have left my soul, to have eaten my pride, to have some sickroom attraction. I’ll remain silent, like unhatched eggs, until noisy, pecking outward. the opus of red lips, the mistake in makeup, the tender goodbye in a one-night stand. I keep re-thawing, like spoiled meat, I must say, its misery, but I’m not unhappy. I suppose we’re chasing bliss, some sick arrangement, I have sorrows on my agenda. a little dismal, a little onery, a tear for attraction—it never lives, it builds in imagination, it’s cold, gelid on leaves, autumn sunshine with rain. many inner nets, many mental snares, until it’s gone.

 

much sleeping melancholy, while misery is awakened, those sandy brown eyes aside mandrill some mysterious word for mysterious, my soul, reaching, beating its faith; a fig tree. a cherry patch. walking through your orchard.    

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