Meand'ring

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Meand'ring

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Downfall

From the inside
of my empty—
[motion]
something
stirred...
[flash]
Vague reticence.
(yearning, receptivity)
                                     "When I speak do you
                                            feel my heat presence?"
[self-conscious]
"Do you care?
to feel my
caring?"
                   [silence]
Budding terror.
(In my crushed tomato heart)
{Nitemare gaze}
"Somnolence will care
for you now,"
[thud.]
"As I do not."

Purgatorial

Rinse my fragility, cursèd empathy!
Gobstone, border guard, sentinel stiffen!
Raise pretentious columnjewel, sand rose
nettleseed grit, vulture-woman crooknose.

Solid? Not what seems, never
No how, no way. Anti-matter
Noose on neck, crook of bony
Skin-neck that precarious bobs.

         Surge an infantry of vanishment!
                    Horsefly joust, metallic grimace whine.
                                           Searchbeam insectoid,
          Gorge my libacious skeeterscream
                     Paltry witch, dijest this insubordinance!

Redemption

Seems always to turn again
Upon a chillèd atmosphere,
With unreal aromatic soothe
Which strike the tend'rst touch.
.
No kindred flair nor trick th' air
Nor intoxicating drink,
Persuade the heart to e'er forget
Its unrelenting link.
.
That link divine, O link supreme!
Thy chain of utter breadth—
Which doth subsume, receive, bestow
Us life and transmutation's depth.