He-line

Like a cat

tame or otherwise-

A man

will attack if touched

where he is most tender.

Artwork by Gwen John [Public domain].

Best wishes

Awoke enraged, not so abnormally early, 

as of lately, over the years.

It was

when the pieces of to-day come 

to-gether, jagged edges

fit like drifting continents

Mean-while 

I feel the Red Sea churning in me,

a chemical nadir or lake-effect

chill, the miasma of yester-day

post-comatose and 

it all seems circumstantial.

To each their own:

Reaction, dreams-re-action, re-sponse

in a more vulnerable way,

most appreciated

On Sundays

with all the

preaching, humility,

and alms, atonements that sound

off, and on

faint echoes-chants of fury flare up

As I smolder

screens and screams of forgiveness

do not alleviate the weight,

some may say, silently changing forms

from matter to steam

was all one should wish for

one another.




Painting by Frank Buchser, 'Portrait of a young woman' 1868 in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Gaseous bubbles

It has become customary

to throw up ones' arms

and say ‘CRAZY’ as though

that could be

the end of

the ‘DILEMMA’, not much more than

ennui & effortless cooling

occurring naturally,

after the initial explosion.

The human being,

irregardless of the (in)humanity,

hovers with the curiosity of before’s and after’s,

and our re-action was our only second chance.

Predictions are prepositional

‘PLANS’.

Any body could conclude

All bubbles burst.

Image credit By NASA, Voyager, a child in bubble 2011 in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.