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It All Began …
It all began in the corners of my eyes on the drive home from work. Coming to a halt at a traffic light near the Lemon Street junction, I saw a single axle delivery truck speeding towards its destination on the other side of the road. Weaving in and out of traffic, the driver had [...]
One Note …
I interpreted the heavens today As a cache of infinite musical notes. Suspended in random fashion, I viewed The stars through a transparency etched With the five lines of a musical staff. Moving the sheet across the sky, I was Perfectly beguiled when the stars became Notes stacked in harmonies of minor fifths And sevenths [...]
E'er and Evermore …
Resolving to avoid every Fine-spun nuance of human Pretense; I spoke with the winds Today and asked if the miracle I Had discovered IN YOU – such torrid Brush strokes dividing the light and the Dreary – might remain the hot ember Now burning brightly IN ME Extending its Warmth and light as Aliment and [...]
Impasse'
(A satiric analogy about literary egoism) “I have groped across this muddle long enough! It has become quite onerous, and there are far too Many aspirants digging wells in salt mines looking For diamonds – wannabes slobbering with hilarity After discovering that “screw you too” is a rhyme.” “Didn’t mommy ever tell you that you [...]
Therapy Session …
“John, you look really angry today; what’s on your mind?” “Oh Doctor … I feel so maligned. People make fun of me behind my back. They don’t understand me … they don’t understand how I suffer. I feel so alone in this world.” “I see … has this been going on long? “About two years [...]
Breathless …
BREATHLESS In that moment between heartbeats, When life hesitates, and hoping becomes An illusion of fulfillment, you appeared as A lucent mist smiling with extended hands. Lamenting though, as I was, an epigonic misfit, Confused, striving, briefly, in so many words, To shift the eminence of illusory judgment Across eons of possibilities – you took [...]
Beyond Understanding
Beyond understanding, in Theatres of hardihood and hope, Where ideating YOU in warm Glowing candles, reclining nude Along threadbare silhouettes, Became a raging obsession, Eye, the willing potter, with Yearning hands, determined To enshrine what makes YOU YOU, ME, A warrior with his sword, Hoping to transcend the fetters Of reason and fear to espouse [...]
