Saturday, February 17, 2024

Boats & Ores


Whatever I knew of majesty, dynamics. 

Breathing like phantoms.

Whatever I thought about love. 

The fields are filled with crops, 

Remnant pains—crazed sickles.

I was cognizant of inactivity, as it morphed

Into jasmine zinnias.

The distance between arts & ideals, by 

Turquoise clouds, fallen grays, 

Present absence. 

Upon a fringe, grappling with physics,

Sensing ‘transmitters.

(A batch of ingredients.)

Such enthusiasm, a record on repeat, Receding zeal, sullen weather,

An appetite for insistence. 

To notice eyelids.

To hear facial expressions.

It measures against backdrops, backboards.

Whatever I knew about soulmates.

Life is so much wrought by creators. 

Museum minded. 

To fritter away, or become the arrow. 

Whatever I used to attest to. 

Torrent waves.

Magnetic gates.

Grave signals.   

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