Cloud-outtakes

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Cloud-outtakes

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Follow-up to
Sky-sculptor's show

original poetry
by d-pend@d-pend
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featuring
photography
    by BrightStar2


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Introduction

This poem was dictated at the same time as "Sky-sculptor's show" and transcribed. I called it outtakes because gazing at clouds near sunset provides basically limitless fodder for the imagination—though there is a sort of sinking feeling when one tries to verbalize these uncapturable majesties. When I felt the main poem was complete I continued to jot down (orally) these impressions to pay homage to the glory of the sky and it became something of its own piece. Let me know your impressions in a comment and thanks for reading my work!

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Cloud-outtakes

Feathered cirrus
arrows of retribution.

The mixture of an ant,
a canine, and a snail.

Living,
a perfect circle
with angel wings.

Protuberous fungi
growing above trees.

A vast coiled aqueduct
topped with a cloud luminary.

Unspeakable monuments and clefts.

Vast profanities obstructing the daytime.

Time recycled in a bin of wisps.

Curtained threats of storm or dreariness,
passive-aggressive with the muted expanse
of hour-after-hour.

Tremulous vectors of discomfiting reflections
behind wheels to steal metal barges.
Brain-factories of pink anxiety.

Escher is born to my upper left;
behind me Dalí plants a cauliflower palace.

To my right, an unnamed bodhisattva
roars with unrequited haiku.

In front of me, inexplicable Octavio
boards a ship of shadow
and wags a gnarled finger at me
while his furrowed brow jubilates.

Ribbed conches of opaque glass,
soft eels blinding in their evanescence.

All the appendages of a shark with no body,
still loyal to their imagined master.

The sea-foam from a dolphin's dive,
yearning for the moment to be resuscitated.


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Original Poetry
by d-pend@d-pend
.
Oct. 13, 2018
.
Photography
   by BrightStar2

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    I. — "Cloud Atlas"
    II. — "To Be Somebody"
    III. — "Let The Sky Fall"
    IV. — "Time"


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