Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Ancestral Memories

 

Susurrous charms, uncharmed names, those welts to souls, one furious fever; like moths and flames, crickets and songs, frogs and leaps—to have life in terrors, skating upon tracks, life certain to challenge itself.     Memories become images, images trigger feelings, if but to sing into flying—those with sin.     The pain is obvious: ambivalence, mimicry, and indifference … to unsettle coolness, to awaken sentiments, to strengthen consciousness …     the isolation of one’s eyes, staring at a stranger, the self as alienation—searching willfully, wishful in nature, filled with ancestral hope—the faith of giants: the way dreams form, the attraction it stirs—many actions, much integrity; debated voices, internal negotiation, minds become filters and mirrors.     Some transcript, political religiosity, to see power and attack. 

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...