How cold become
feet at the preparedness
of ground.
No appeal eloquent
enough, for we
who fare the final.
We who wonder at
wondering, buckle at
truth made firm.

When the mind's
light smears everywhere...
colors swell to bursting--
right before the black out.

Preludium: as gaps fulfill
their color...
may we be privy
to dream.
From a cornered
eye, freed from
its perfect cut...
true to life, yet not.
A sharp right into
blue.
Its sky slid the
silent take of a red
tail hawk...caught
to the gravity of a limp bird, shrunk by shock.
I sat by, the bird's feathers fell
in countered curls and spins.
Amidst parkland, near a
pitcher's mound...snow
traced its fall the night prior.
The wind blew, and I
swear...snowflakes coupled
with those falling feathers.
What's out of sight is always
gentle--what sees is carried
away.

How long can
you go without the
need to take away
something from
an experience?

Now and then,
not to forget when...
there's a feel of four
horsemen neck to
neck, flush with
*******.
Continually crossing
the lines that time
will tell.
To reveal the world
as an individual,
in a war of many...
should a heel be placed
upon good and evil.

If a soul must have its
night, which it must...
how dark it gather, how
thick it be...what's lived
will tell--to what end?
A directionless break of sound,
as if fled
from silence with a start--
the terrible nausea of having
been, and returning to what
now is, which will be...no
more apparent than the experience of itself, roundly met.
How might a personage bear
the scorn of what means to dissolve
what no longer serves it.
What of life that may be deemed
short, or long...as if never born--
or born to die to what's never been born.
Blind stead, whose dross drapes days in wait of gold.

How is it,
tears betray
and absolve
an ocean...
in the span
of a face?