Monday, December 27, 2021

Tragic Sleeping

 The Form is off.



I don’t write like I should nor would I lie. 

much a tragic wasteland, more direct rain. phantoms inside, upon a dream, pain 

gnaws like rabbits. the heat races in tides.

 

days become dragons, lunging at brains. 

most dangerous, sly, flaming schisms—

undo, unmet, unrequited time, made isms, 

into regions, sunk inside, washing flames.

 

I touch asphalt the sidewalk is melting—

a canto is a bird, fever is passion, more 

burning into metal, more a sour core—

trying in sharpness, unspent ink pelting.

 

so sweet to visit aesthetic shrapnel;

those eyes play piano, those feelings are 

coarse, many sudden bars, a silent scar—fretting cities, interior made gravel.

 

torn by jasper roses the sun into a fit—

talking outside of spheres, so unknit—

reformed in essence, no one relates—

moving faster, mulling over gates—

sure faith in diamonds, gems speaking,

certain to adore, more tragic sleeping.  

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