9/25/14

Untitled

She smoked fire
Like a troubled soul 
But less tired
She blew intrepid circles 
Around my eyes
And traced my navel 
To my cranium
As if she could click the tumblers
As if she could align the chord
The nerve of her audacity
Only followed by sort of success
That gives threat to the sword
And means to the spear
She hadn't even come near

Walking the line

I could play out a perfect forward line
In my head
An walk it like it were the very purpose of life
I see as much now
And it seems pretty close to the purpose of life 
There aren't a whole lot of similarities or anything worth noting 
Nothing out of the cliche
My eyes look on this wall
(That's how I see the line) 
Just the same as my eyes look out most days
The wall takes me over the land like the mountain's razor 
And the walking walks into leading 
And My weight is flying 
I keep my feet walking 
To remember which side of gravity I belong
But that reminds me I don't 
Actually belong much 
There's a sunlong stretch 
And the light falls into a maddening of colors 
It's pretty much the same as life
The day ends

Fresh squeeze

Squeeze me
On either side of my head
Press inwardly
The glands of these names
And the scents of these touching tips of things--each edge the blade of being
Through the closed throat 
Slit the sore at the node
And right on through the chest 
Flesh out the roads of my stories
Vining their way to my extremities
Now let these capillaries burst with the events in their knowns
Bleed the through the susceptible  
Functions 
These fucking manners and makers
These blobby bits clinging to the biles, bloods and antibodies
Bleed them through
And the skin of my sights 
Won't mean much the same by now
So let them peel away
Let as much as possible leave that way
To pool over 
Into the soup of our creation
Once more

Earthenwares

Here the clay lives in the cups and the bowls, and the plant's pot
Like it found itself there and formed a community
She waves here and there to brush off excesses on her sight 
Lights on a now lighting piece of plaster adorned in blue and white
The surfaces of the earthenware shimmer and wake
To ready for its day
As the one thing it is

Buttony shirts and the outskirts


Take with you yourself
And your comically formal clothing
Take with you yourself
To the mouth of the cave
And feel the sky 
Rasping by the entrance
And filling us 
With a memory of water
As it has fallen
Though you didn't know it
Take your arms
Buttoned at the wrists
As if you feared they would fly away
Have your arm its own meaning
And follow where it points

Questing on

Took the trip
Asked questions
Fought dragons
Asked questions
Dealt the blow
Asked questions
Spurned the tensions
Asked questions
Prayed for even more questions

Walking

I will not have walking without 
Already being Home 
and Home again
Why don't you walk with me
That's halfway at least

9/19/14

Horizon

Hush
There is time yet
To throw in and over again
Tell me how we did it
No don't
Please. I'm flying 
Tell me some other time
When we're drowning
No don't 
Please. I'm trying 
To set myself off
To set off an aloft
To offset the soft 
And off myself 
I ought to be the horizon
A final straight ending 
Neverending

Social posture


I would bow 
But I'm sure the service doesn't translate
Perhaps I will anyway
Because damned be a moment of time 
Positioned context 
 
The stars do not stop coming out
Just Because their names are forgotten

Because time takes time

What would you have me do?
You plucked these chords knowingly
You tuned these fires flowingly 
And now you'd like the beating to stop?
The child emerging in our souls
To stop?

Listen please
I have nothing 
Nothing in this place
Where do you think old hymns come from?
And where do you think they go?
They cannot be burned
They cannot be swallowed
You cannot still this resonation
You Cannot still a know

In place

I hold my breath 
And the attractions?
And the hindrances?
I shunt the motion 
I pull myself back into my mouth
All of it
To incubate
Though eyes may drink and never quench