Friday, May 27, 2022

Raised In This Life

 

Under a sullen grin, sensed as different,

diagnosed as peculiar; distorted facts,

partial truths, walking thickets; symbols

&

recurrent motifs. An example of rain,

triumph, plus, a few hassles. Open eyes.

Years at tobacco. Evinced in thunder.

 

We penalize women.

 

Never understood too much;

a slower kid;

many thought of dying.

Putting years to souls, at an apple tree,

carving, “I ate sin.”

 

Read it like sunrise. Asked several the

ache; many just fell to silence.

Sternness of essence. The interior

chaperone. Life is sub-terrors.

 

I would admire the gift, an ungifted

alien, as estranged from the mercy

of my hands. I would look deeper, proud

to

hold script, puzzled by the manuscript;

wiped

souls,

transcripts,

freedom is part in parts. So essential to

art—the anxiety, no worse day to reminiscing on one … into portals, dominions, swearing, I heard her.

 

Much ash out there. More rain in here. Granny

is 7 now. Indeed, I jest.    

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