Saturday, October 20, 2007

Fruition Ignition Cognition



And now my lungs are empty,
no comforting words to spill
Like tattered curtains of memory
which brush your window sill
And scatter dust like glittered galaxies
of miniscule design
across the universe that forms your room,
apparently benign
But littered yet with trip or fall
or lurking dark desire

And having crossed they come to rest
where skirting meets the wall
and there do set about the task
of conquering the house
Emissaries with powder keg and secret atom ray
Sent to calculate the neighbours
to seed their tongues and sandalwood smiles
with decadent behaviour
and then below the bowl of sky
to blow those motes asunder

And passing wheels swish the shaker’s hat
in black benevolence bedecked
the brass, the box, the candles shocked
to feel the passing wind’s neglect
where words are spend in careful pain
on the ciphered days that lie ahead
they circle the ritual wreck, the wooden heart,
the eyes that here were wed
and feet will walk the sidewalk cracks
numb become uneven.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

There is powerful and poignant imagery and emotion in this, Pisces. Beautifully done even though it leaves me heart sore - or maybe because it does so.

karoline in the morning said...

pi i like it very much...and as vanilla says...it's poignancy strikes me to the quick..

very good..

k:)))

Yodood said...

Pisces, I like the simplicity of having only one post appear on the home page of your blog but — since you write such deeply evocative posts that when you post one a day after the last, like this post, the previous one just begins to receive comments when it's replaced by a new one and no one follows up. I enjoy your posts immensely, but I also like the comments you draw from the ethers.

Besides, your right hand column goes on for miles, so it isn't as if posting only one on the front page will keep it more compact or neater.

karoline in the morning said...

i agree...i like to be able to browse back and check that i haven't missed anything..and i'm really not smart enough to have to figger it all out on my own..

sniff

;p

Diane Dehler said...

Pisces,
This is beautifully written!

Garth said...

Since y'all asked so nicely...

karoline in the morning said...

thankyou!!!

:))))))))))

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