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save the platitudes
for the post-breakdown shower;
towel strewn on the floor,
steam suffocating common sense.
too little to soothe the hate.

stained glass reflects broken pieces
of our souls, a low hum
that ascends to screaming
before bursting, limp. the color
stands still, where the glass once was,
and attempts to rebuild it
more vibrantly, in rebuke
of the damage it barely survived.

and before anything else,
know it meant nothing,
means nothing.
arbitrary value assigned
by an unreliable narrator
who drafted this story
out of spite, boredom, and rage.

the ballpoint is sharpened
against the page and threatens
to tear it
like the stained glass,
like your bones.
like all of you.

maybe a poem will save you.
We cradle the precious things

and place them carefully upon our lap

the miracle of newness is like a sacred prayer

it is hands raised high and heads bowed low

yet always in that moment eyes opened wider

we marvel and bask in the wonder of it all

it is a full moon in a hungry sky

hope’s whisper of a million questions

before the answers will ever reach our lips

a blooming garden at our feet

a child’s hand clutching ours

yet still we walk too fast

as time brushes by.
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see,
except standing there leaning on the balcony rail,
holding the universe together."
  ~ J. D. Saliner
Today again I saw a gate in the sky.
Streams of pale light trickled through it.
I no longer looked at the sun, only straight ahead,
My silhouette reflected in the ***** tram window.
I looked farther, hypnotized,
sipping words veiled in the dust of the autumn sun.

Dry spaces. Leaves.
Golden bile sparkled,
And no one saw this wonder in the sky.
At the stop, in the crowd rushing by,
An experiment took place:
A man wrapped in copper threads.

He searched for relief while anger bound his soul.
He fought the air, attacked with words,
Like a puppet moving in convulsions.

Hands clenched, anger in his eyes.
“This will pass, this will fade,” I thought,
Moving to another car.

A primal tremor. A change of frequency.
Someone is turning the **** of our universe.
How many more cells of the body will they spoil
Before it is ground to ashes?
Until all ends in colonization,
A reward for micro-souls from another world.

People sunk in their minds
do not hear the hum of strings.
And I plead in my thoughts:
listen, look, be your reality.

Behind the gate a hundred weeks ago,
a crackling gramophone plays.
My calm relieves someone’s thoughts.
Somewhere, thousands of hours ago,
the past becomes the future.

Next time when you pass by me, indifferent,
the warmth of my thought will warm your
Dry, wrinkled hands.

I will never know You, and I would like to know
what you will say when these trembling words arrive on the wind.

In the autumn glow of the setting sun,
Like a gentle brushing of leaves at the next opening of the gate.
I will be there in the crack like a stray thought
that wanted to become immortality.
Poets come.

Poets go.

Poems remain—

left behind for someone

to read,

to admire,

and

to inspire

the next generation

to pick up the pen.
I come here
Carrying my jug of water
Sacrifice to thirsty gods
Put my prayers into the flow
Hope you know
Hope you know
 4d
Aishu
The power went off
The street was dark and quiet
One single star shines.
Between wave and return  
       the salt grew heavier in my hands.

Foam thinned to threads,  
       knots glinting in the shallows.

Still wet with the reading,  
       I leaned toward the loom.
The me self and the I self and we,
were imagining ourselves possessed

or, at least, stitched to our weform shadow

of an essentially spiritual sameness, as us

in weform, not just me,
and just me, only thinker thinking,
but we, the people judging each other,

after all, each day's worth, wasted or used,
trying to realize actual ever after, at peace

liking your baited hook with 'bated breath
held for your liking, look, we can turn blue,

waiting for the point where reality pops.

Leaving us scatter brained, and much the same,
as though we never used the time
to seem weformed, just right.

What good could one right idea do alone?

High five, zenwise, two one hands clapping…
in spirit we, our final form, once imaginable

strolling streets of gold, with nothing else to do…
judgement's all done, hell was not an option,

so one of us starts writing on the window
between here and there… and catches your attention,

this is that,
click bait, fishing for mental bytes, organized from bits.

Ever learning one can never know everything at once.

Just if, and what if, just said so soft,
another weform might think it all imagined.

While we think it more likely spiritual.
Some times tears come after realizing you have not heard from a sick friend since last time you said good bye, and a ghostly reminder brings a smile with tears... so we think we still have all we ever held true between us...
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