anything that is,
must bear light —
transitory, translucent: perhaps, winged
and conscious of space, mindful of turn,
sizing down height. vertigo of all that,
shining no ambivalence.
this is the way my world will end:
the room still reeks of sour mash —
Pablo the dog, oblivious, marble-eyed,
yet some pitch-black hound's awakening
from steely sleep. the pages will
fall flat on the doorstep unannounced—
it is difficult to imagine angels.
it is difficult to deal God's infinities.
they are each to their own
faults.
heaven is meant to scar. still drunk
in fearfully fretting butterflies
tilted in slaughterhouses screaming
****** against the crowd.
there will be no falsetto claim to
sovereign — a drop D, e minor chord
on the guitar, strumming, swimmingly
discolored and only resounding.
Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 10:42 PM UTC
anything that is,
must bear light —
transitory, translucent: perhaps, winged
and conscious of space, mindful of turn,
sizing down height. vertigo of all that,
shining no ambivalence.
this is the way my world will end:
the room still reeks of sour mash —
Pablo the dog, oblivious, marble-eyed,
yet some pitch-black hound's awakening
from steely sleep. the pages will
fall flat on the doorstep unannounced—
it is difficult to imagine angels.
it is difficult to deal God's infinities.
they are each to their own
faults.
heaven is meant to scar. still drunk
in fearfully fretting butterflies
tilted in slaughterhouses screaming
****** against the crowd.
there will be no falsetto claim to
sovereign — a drop D, e minor chord
on the guitar, strumming, swimmingly
discolored and only resounding.
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