i was vertical
blind
crossing the ocean
without a plotted
course
you were solid fixed
i was fitted. the
waves and sheets the
sun and salt
nevermind. it’s not our fault
the night is disobedient
the suspension
bridge of light
you
gave me my
life
scarred
out of sight
blind
nevermind
we are like kids
we are travelers
we laugh at the future
we are all
right
you coulda been living in a car
you were and
who cared you disappeared off
the lips with a
prayer
rose quartz
the quality to express
you
a pale of having been purified
by trial
only accomplished in
those the world gave
away
the colorless moments of stressed inhibition
must i be always backed into a corner before i come
fighting?
a sea of bad news and brake lights
ahead
even tears and smiles
were a stretch
then
from that place of half flag summer fatigue
arose a current from the far
east
we would not know until we opened two walls
the windows
life came into the trees
i awoke feeling different
all the colors returned
time was no longer just a waiting for work
there was meaning
it was personal
it was yours
it was mine
this is not all we know. below the coffee grounds. above the traffic jam. beneath the chirping devices there is a deeper space we may go
this is not all we know
so go
my child
go
trapped by heat the relentless wave
of sun. gimme a lemon
ginger ale
on ice
my mind in a prism my thoughts burn through me like sea
salt the machines and engines double
down like doom
throw me in a swimming pool turn the sky to liquid falling
down. cool rain reaches demigod status in the valley
leaking antifreeze side by fields
rivers are the queens
sacks of ice pulled down from freezer doors to fracture
on the tile
night sails in like allies freeing
paris circa
1945
