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the lush peace and quiet of volition, on a Sunday afternoon

*consciously, willfully, I wish it

 

quietly the Sunday, the sun day, drifts toward,

in its natural game, set, overmatched,

the foregone conclusion, nightfall diminishment

 

the water songfully swishes,

as the tide departs for places unknown, this then, now

the only natural authorized aural apparition,

the power boats renounce their normal noisy conditioning,

honoring their silenced, under-sail brethren,

as well as admitting their noises disfigure

the fast approaching majesty of the end of

our summer seasoning of humanity

 

consciously, willfully, I wish it

 

once again, lush is the quietude,^

now given up, surrendered and surceased to wonder,

how come I to write of these moments so oft,

thenever-ending quest to re-inscribe it on my sensibilities,

in vainglorious hopes that this stamping will last, be the last,

see me through the turgid frigidity of my Lucifer life,

come the fall, the winter, the early dark,

the daylight's brevity, the hurricane season of the mind,

that...need I say more?

 

consciously, willfully, I wish it

 

the particular white cloud formation of the moment at hand,

shall stay in place,  be the capstone of my summer living vision,

become permanent part and parcel

of the sclera, the white of my eyes, and when

I will write, soon enough,

my vision white weeping clouded,

you will weep knowingly, sympathetically

 

consciously, willfully,

I wish for that as well*

 

8/27/17

6:35pm

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dead-rose-one
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Aug 29, 2017
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^ June 2015.

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