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2.9.2014 Truth

2/9/2014

 
if it is true
that all is an illusion
and even matter is a waltz
of tiny fires, waves of light
then why can’t it be
true that the dragonfly stitches
tight the lips of the dead
so they will not speak
secrets of that other world
woven of stars that the
living must not know of
and the loons who we
think fly south led by bits
of magnetite sunk
in their whistling skulls  
really sail on endlessly
passing from galaxy to galaxy
lamenting in their lonely way
the extinction of mysteries
while beneath the waves
the starfish armed like hands
bind this world for us
keep it from flying apart
in a grip tighter than gravity,
more tenacious than love
and somewhere in a jungle
which is always somewhere
other than we can be, the tiger
striped in sunrise, wind
and black night abrades
a path through the trees
the sparks of its passage  
making it possible
for us to dream.


 

2.7.2014

2/7/2014

 
     in my life without a lover
throughout my house
kisses move like blind hummingbirds
windows rattle and complain
my hands linger on vases
the necks of wine bottles, doorless doorways
I inhabit my furniture despairingly
the way an animal inhabits a zoo
and cry over small things
dead moths, broken yolks, sad clouds.
     outside, the world goes on 
and on painting itself tangerines
while I dissolve in my shower
raise myself from the endless floors
and wait for night, sweet night
to climb into my bed out of pity.


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