Sunday, January 16, 2022

Cave Rites

 

flesh palm filled with memories.

 

cocoa and

coffee, a somber outlook:

 

silent rooms,

rethinking the vibrant minx, a

fantasy the love is easier;

 

on wooden

floors, like leaping grasshoppers,  

 

cathedrals.

 

speaking gibberish,

cursing myself, the ocean behind  

eyes: warm waters, flushed  

testimony, hacking up ghosts.

 

an orange

 

cigar, spontaneous joy, sitting in

sins.

 

I

saw grape eyes, inner confinement,

inductive existence:

 

garden diets,

infested furs, memories and

wonders:

 

sudden appeal, if Love is

therapy,

 

if insanity is partial:

 

polyamorous

lifestyles, or monogamous fury,

making

excuses for non-social traits; most

playful

 

gem, an astute lawyer, myriad

deliberations.

 

(I feel recruited, like

cosmic laughter, outlandish

enough to

amble closer):

 

trekking through marsh,

filtering through wisdom, a

lonely

man

is a

 

smarting man.

 

it dies that way, peering

at wilderness, self-involved

he

can’t fly. 

 

to have an ailment; to have a

song; to flute with insistence:

casual

pains, choking on heaviness,

appalled

 

by impetuosity.

 

the rowing to land, the

rafted heartbeat, the persistence

of

make-believe: women writing,

scribbling fierce verses, gambling

for a fitted love. that palm of

goosegrass, the tale

 

about eating wood, the living love

adventure:

 

freelance poets, the

creative linguists, cymbals

becoming irritations;

 

as thought the

ache, if but for healing,

 

perfect our patience to exist;

 

a ship of senses, the

tale of escapades, the backstage

pass, a whit exciting. 

 

It was

furious passion, thought to feel

love, the purely instructive

mansion:

 

never so beautiful, the perfect

scarf, a silken suit—

inner gravity, a tugging heart,

deep enchantment.

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