Thursday, May 12, 2022

Antiquitous Myrtle

 

upon Alaskan sunshine, awaiting to witness life, mothers as casualties; many decisions, much indecisiveness, vows made into concrete. Sahara deserts, nibbling raspberries, making seasons of the delights; wreckage, salvage yards, filth and dice and studies—to have dropped the mirror, to have laughed in the mirror, to have become the portrait of the mirror. so distorted and flying, higher as a dream, so much of existence is mental. many thickets and briers, when luxury appeared, the silence, the leaf, the old classroom. winter sunburn, plant hoppers, infusion and insanity; crying at realities, singing inside, sullen, going through opposites. the terror of the unrealized, the locke of the shadow, the anima of the lineage. gazing at skies, sensing self, seeing the horizon as it glistens—the falling rainbow, the wincing at the miracle, filled with unbelief. debating the purpose of time, it seems mythical, imposed by thought—a long letter to the ether. ferns and daisies, begonias and dreams, to have perfection by the aging process. to flood instincts, disturbed by perception, and fixed by conception. missing links, brains moving, hearts filled with pain and duplicity; maybe distressed at points, maybe the best of all winds, on a day you first laughed—overflowing with glee, too genuine to cast away.    

I’d Save The Reader Years

    The beat becomes sickness. A long crucible—a drilling ecstasy. I was losing focus, feeling forbidden, if to self, if to mirrors. So curs...