
sean-fitzpatrick
American
But nature is a stranger yet; / The ones that cite her most / Have never passed her haunted house, / Nor simplified her ghost. / / To pity those that know her not / Is helped by the regret / That those who know her, know her less / The nearer her they get.
The arms of eternity open,
like a sentimental bolero played
at some in-between place,
they open lazily
and incandescently,
encircling the comically and silently raging,
Poetically, and gently,
the phantom draws her wings towards forgetfulness -
at the eye of the temple -
distant,
full of guidance
and potential.
The profound silence of bitter lives.
Nov 21, 2024
Nov 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM UTC
Visages perch like leaves offered to the sun,
as we lie below, sleeping in a stream,
toe-to-toe, our gills inundated with burning.
A half-light permits itself to be shown.
Its voice is used.
Sea monkeys may sing their fragments.
Their dreams are sharp coral
that drag power from the broken body
of a shore.
They are in sin -
a thing owned so unseriously.
With the setting sun, the great aftermath
looks on in leisure, and as a slave to the mystique:
time’s wide course
does not return nor continue accordingly.
Nov 9, 2024
Nov 9, 2024 at 8:37 PM UTC
Standing conifers
girdle them down
to recumbent silence,
their eyes-formed-plates
laterally diminishing in eighths,
They wait cross legged,
sheltered by palms of rock
and shattered limbs of lost parts,
their minds slowly wandering,
wrapping up the sky and up
to rest in sky
They are dreaming of singing,
dancing so
loudly
in the cold and new night,
If you are worn,
take musk upon your hands
and onto moss-ridden stones throw
upon yourself the swell and
look,
it is large and empty,
a disruption of rock breaking in the air
It is:
root splits stone
twining dirt into
valley covering,
splitting pine into pine
and path into path,
cutting and wandering
by the foot,
A microcosm but repeating itself repeating
itself,
Disrupted, and if upside down,
falling into sky.
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024 at 11:49 PM UTC
Leave the clean up to the professionals,
the conspiracies to the airs.
The dance macabre, music all-strutting a
life-expression,
worn in the ingratiating shimmer
off Time’s surface,
bright as a smile
and decent as a memory.
Like a worn blade
incapable of cutting so much of
what is needed of cloth,
and leaving only ruin
in its wake.
Just so,
matter turns to finer matter,
and of the, well, supposed immaterial,
the
to be not-to-be-so abstract
that-is-a-life,
a worn-to-pieces quilt of
finer thread than dust,
ambivalently contrasting
in the light of:
what is useful,
what is not,
loves me,
loves me not,
Jan 16, 2024
Jan 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM UTC
Alchemical winds
guide matter, groaning against
the firmament in its
transmigration:
foundations of the world.
Such madness;
as a heavenly body
turns its face, revealing and
concealing at once;
as a fruit fly
clones its black
cloak under the
plain daylight;
as a hat
lies upon a coat rack,
and haunts us at all
ungodly hours of the night.
A ghost! - one that
we mistake for whole.
Such empty evil
as a vessel that consumes others
like itself cannot be a sin
greater than creation.
And as all things cast shadows
in the light,
so walks a shadow
that some call a friend -
a visitor born of the same
fate as your own!
Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 2023 at 7:56 PM UTC
Illustrious visage
offering everything of your spectral body up
to the eyes of mortals.
A revenant memory,
poetry incarnate,
a heart of bliss testifying
through simple presence
the adversity of life
in its monstrous majesty.
It is you who
guides us
from one hollow to the next,
you who
tells a secret,
when cradled by the void.
Nov 26, 2023
Nov 26, 2023 at 9:26 PM UTC
Streetlights glide past on a Tuesday night,
so alone, and the air,
cold wet.
Your faces form a phase like
a string of pearls,
occurrences distributed in space,
Watching mournful over the
deserted pedestrian causeways
eliciting sonderous ghosts,
Leaving voicemails
for romances that never happened.
And selfishly, I presume
a perspective,
Or really, I dream up of a
place to meet you,
like an alleyway (I am a **** in this instance),
Or the leftovers of a wedding
eagerly awaiting the clean-up crew.
Nov 26, 2023
Nov 26, 2023 at 9:02 PM UTC
There is another gravity
which falls into the stars,
whose weightlessness enables
the tendrils of space to abound,
whose blackness befits the shadows
cast by needling trees,
a circumnavigation
brought about by ease
Nov 22, 2023
Nov 22, 2023 at 3:29 PM UTC
Mother Mary with her tilted head
suggests,
with her Posture,
the light that illuminates her shawl.
Like a leaf tilted by the weight
of water,
the sky demands Enough and speaks,
easy words.
For a time, when the world is silent,
not even
a mystic experience could perfume
the inventory of delight.
Even the light is hollow bubbles.
Oct 12, 2023
Oct 12, 2023 at 1:11 PM UTC
Blood in the blue,
a direct proclamation of fate,
guided like an arrow,
an actor, or oneself-
a mere impulse-desire in the velvet ruins of eternity.
Temporally displaced,
The hidden moment of a lifetime’s innocent
desire to become
nothing more
than this, that is here,
a dream working on the edge of town,
an elephants delight,
a signal flare on a dark sea nesting quietly underneath an endless, black sky.
Aug 28, 2023
Aug 28, 2023 at 8:47 PM UTC