“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Clear as mud
Enveloped, as I had been
folded
into the dark mournings,
one after the next stroke of
grey palette,
And when standing
upright
among the five foot stalks
of daisies and poppies
where painted ladies
couple up twisting aloft
precipitation,
and what precedes,
a worm, a cloud, a momentary
levitation
inconsistencies become solid
Silver change strewn across
the steel
sea,
sense
the bottom
of the well, whereby my feet
have sunk
in.
Artwork by Umberto Boccioni, c. 1902 [CC0] in Public Domain.
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].
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Roar
Solid beads bounce off my body,
each of their masses colliding with my shell
and I am sore, sensitive from the pelting,
gasping with my gills barely open
a slit.
Upwards I face and solid streams form rolling
down my brow and bridges.
I feel drowning is the same enveloping
as the light or darkness inside
my pores.
Buoyancy is all I have
left to show
I am still
occupying
space.
Stalactites reach for the mineral world
they once had.
Days went and came
passing thru me
like water.
There was nothing new
to sea here,
save
the rumbling and reforming
beneath the surface.
Photograph credited by 'Oregon Sea Lion Cave' Ljmajer [Public domain].
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Wait and see
That is how things collapse,
you know how it goes,
all at once.
From experience,
there was no other way.
I survived a major earthquake,
yet none jolt the nerves like those
fault lines
connected to the heart.
So, it is never
really one thing-at a time,
rather what we choose to do or see
about it,
like finding a moldy blueberry
and leaving it with the rest.
It makes one turn to meat,
foregoing the fruit.
There is a dotted line between
poison and penicillin.
There is more to throw away
than keep.
Rebuilding is going to require
everything,
except
accepting to live in the rubble
of what once stood
up to/against.
Image credited by Nyttend in [Public domain].
dead end
Like Darwin's finches,
would we know why our beaks are shaped this way?
Poetry, like mathematical sentences,
cage the pigeon, momentarily truth can be contained
in theorem.
History was written to expel,
revise, adapt and to forget the way it happened
in order to make story from time with a line.
A plot never seems to develop
or hold
what was expected.
I do repeat myself,
I say things I often don't recognize
as mine, I smell fear in my atmosphere
and wish flight was my choice.
Artist Jacques Callot (1592-1635) 'Traveler' early 17th century, in Public Domain.
De-hydration
There was I,
sitting atop the toilet seat after dark,
clutching the stemless wineglass with ice,
melting and prickling my fingertips with cold
beads expelled in an attempt at temperature
regulation.
My heart stomps and fills my ear
with an exasperated scream
about how hard it is to move
all this blood
to and from.
I do not drink wine,
my drink is called Karma,
its supposed to aid
digestion, I digress,
waiting in the mid-night
beads roll down my temple
and I shatter atop the frozen tiles
Waiting
as my Karma becomes diluted.
Painting by Sebastian Stoskopff [Public domain].
Painting by Sebastian Stoskopff [Public domain].
Weather (or not)
There are no problems, I have been told,
simply-events, an occurrence.
It is no coincidence, it suddenly occurred
to me, occur can be like low tide, recurring.
If there are no problems, are we living
in a comfort(able) zone, which becomes
uncomfortable,
like growing out of shoes,
or them growing apart
from you.
Returning our attention
to the steps we take, looking down,
we notice the children all looking up.
The sky is never the same.
Painting by Eugene de Blaas [Public domain].
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