Monday, April 17, 2023

Admiring An Artist

 

reading your work is misery laced by insight.

being & fantasy, cloves & wishes,

upon trefoils.

you breeze by, uninterrupted, into cadence;

seeing a picture, simply complex,

not many enter catacombs: you stand with your

flag, you beg for nuns.

miracle pains.

cosmic interference: trying to neglect doubt.

            all becomes mundane.

            wrestling redundancy.

            to find it is to undress trespasses.

i needed, and was unprepared.

it’s cute, playful, ubiquitous: replaceable.

we would with fever the grace.

to redeem literature, to relive classics.

the way you bend winds, eat earth,

fuse music; vibing undulations,

careful to thresh your readers.   

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