Why do you slay me
You cowering coward
Why do you haunt me
You frame
Today is yester
I’m here I’ll be late
Stranger I know you
Disappear
Why do you slay me
You cowering coward
Why do you haunt me
You frame
Today is yester
I’m here I’ll be late
Stranger I know you
Disappear
He left
Me
Alone
To struggle then break free
To wail before the calm did come
To despair until all that was left is hope
To see my own cowering shadow rise up
To be dust, dust again, then be formed
To learn I knew nothing
He never left me alone
no. i refuse it.
the empty analytics.
but I covet it.
What color is it
That perfect depicts
Exhaustion of speaking to walls
The tone of tea-wash
The gloss of green bog
The palette of pinesnake’s slow crawl
It is and must be
The khaki-grey knees
The clear jades convinced hope stands tall
But could it be right
This midnight blue might
Be black and be white after all
I’m faded away
My honesty, sweat and blood
I am wasn’t there
it is complete
it goes ’round and around
and it binds and bounds
encircles, ensnares
’til it brings
good hearts downthe rodeo clown
tires not from attempts
to dissuade to distract
to destroy
the bolting and bucking
the fall of reason
Yes the nothingness
I’ve shouted deep into it
I’ve heaved the gauntlet
The windows open.
All night. The moon stakes its claim.
Not a sound. Not one.
Numbers why numbers
Why not your skin on my skin
Notwithstanding words
The need to be not stricken
By the simplest song’s every low, strummed string
The imagined scent riding the gentlest breeze
The hop, hop, hopping of some creature’s feet
Is great
Is doomed