Saturday, May 21, 2022

Slow Burning Logs

 

to get low upon knees, to become the mantis, most curious about the demons. to shift in motion the plague of insecurities, if to find some location in surety. the dance between planets, anxious to have being, alive, it’s been the creature of the shadow. you seem so intent—i’ve caused a scar—such furious justification—the dam broken, the skies shattered, the safety is in mercy—so precarious! you have reasoning, so beyond normality, too evolved to find peace.

so crazed the latest memories, like symbols of war, finding our souls back in the kitchen. the cooking, the seasonings, the defrosting, marinating, boiling, and thawing out.

something churns, so much in adrenaline, such pictures in spaces, falsification by an interior design.

through a small hatch, walking towards warmth, or so cold the depth is vengeance; and over there, the firm weather, so interior, it must hibernate. the salience underground, those feelings unjustified, the mind chases the heart.

last to notice, first to agree, in a land cautious to guide itself.       

I’d Save The Reader Years

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