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Julia Low May 2012
we are small
particles, atomies
and dust tucked away
in the back pockets
of the universe --

--we still exist

in seconds
in flashes across the sky
in sparks and matches
in drops of ink on paper
in love and touch
in movement and breath

and even in the dark
the stars remember

us.
Julia Low May 2012
Greetings noble wanderer
I know your journey has been long
the road has led you far from home
and now it has
carried you to my door.

Friend, what do you seek?

Enlightenment?
Sadly, I've none to offer.

Wisdom?
Again no, but do not abandon your search.

Answers?
Young soul, I too find only questions.

Meaning or purpose?
I've found none, and fear your quest because
may have thus far been in vain.

I can offer you nothing but the understanding
of one who too has endlessly trudged
this lonely solitary path.

If it's rest and the comfort of a kindred heart,
then, please, come in my dear young friend.

By all means,
do come in.
Julia Low May 2012
Struggling beneath eyelids,
heavy and convincing,
begging and imploring me
to rest a while.

Yet, my brain hums,
steadily and nosily,
an uninspired lullaby
of thoughts and memories
that I cannot seem to sing.

Wouldn't it make a lovely song,
these theories and explanations?

If only they stayed a while,
instead of flitting away.
Julia Low May 2012
I will burn sage tonight
No longer will the figures
And shrouds have their way with me
I have become kindred
To the fourth dimension
They are not gods
But my ancestors
And evolutionary pathway
I will not fear what I am
Soon to become
The vibrations and
Partial enlightenment
Shake me to other realms
Reptillian, sprawling, heavy, and dank
Some have mated my flesh
Others share gifts
Reveal the expansion of
What I will receive
I will show them
We are one
I will show them
I am the realization
Of their efforts
And engineering.
Julia Low May 2012
I always saw
or seen
the vein underneath
my skin as
green

till it turned
black
and blue

then I remembered
this was all about you

the silver steel
needle
that promised to make
me feel

something that wasn't real
just like you

I became addicted to that feeling
you know

I guess
I don't remember now
why I bought that
silver steel.
Julia Low May 2012
The shelves speak verses.
As hands and minds can’t comprehend,
“where to begin,”
A shutter of silence,
infinite inquiry into
an immense world of the unknown.

A play land for the mind,
a dream for the mind to dream
in its own composure.

Can my hands cramp,
in all it’s entirety?
where pens aren’t needed
and candle lit desktops

Where brief sighs and coughs
echo between isles
through one ear and out the other
a calm music
a relaxing tune
a slew of mishaps
to open imaginative

My mind flutters
from one title to the next
soak up and enjoy
to be sponged out later
where the inspiration and influence
will become my own work

Where my pen will outline my fingers
and touch my mind
to creative emotion
and sew the seams
of the seemingly impossible
to invoke connections
where thought couldn’t be
and to write from the heart
for everybody to see

“This is where I begin.”
Julia Low May 2012
The rapture is in the sink
And the war on terror just started in my knees
The night is gluttonous
It turns here inside out
Wood and brick this house is a chew toy
I’ve lost it in the corners now
The moon is almost finished now
What’s that? Even the house hiccups
I’m making chemo patients jealous with the hair that I’ve
Pulled out
You’re dope I’m a fiend I just want to get strung out
My heart can be callous but my mind is obscene
And if you know what I mean
I’ll make you half and half
The night I’ve been getting drunk
Drunk on all this noise I’m not hearing
I just think I’m perceiving
Humbly waiting
Waiting for the meeting
For the meaning
What’s that?

A house just creaks.
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