an intensity, unreached
an intensity, unreached
keeps the ambulators pacing
maintains the heart’s racing
and forever seeks higher graces
inquisitive pillager forever feeling out the
pockets of damp clenched dreaming
fences: the village of honeyed flesh
———
My jaded cadence annoys me
recalls ancient unopen selves
casts shadows, reeks in corners:
footprints in settled shale, sunken—
shed and sulking biography.
I pace to break the hemiola which
binds mind to matter; I race to the
cacophonous rim, crack the taught skin—
frantic to stake out new pulses.
*
fleeces itself
imagined coils
stack dense against night clouds,
hold ballast to lithe skeletons of stars
(jointed suns) the jettied jelly flesh (warm warmed warming wet embellishement)
sprung perpetual, spring of alk- sal- glu- suc-
sweetest itself