the tape spins . . . in over-reel haphazard lines in convulsed black
1. Clear and still lake . . . hardly a ripple on the blue matter Step to water’s edge . . . hesitant eyes briefly touch the surface Heel lifts into the arch of civilisations hanging . . . humming inside-tunes Foot pendulous and . . . toes dipping aching-slow sink in clean and . . . s u b m e r g e d Then rising, a single drop escapes . . . sweet h e a l
2. Step forward . . . into the void . . . it has been waiting . . . sacrosanct
the flourish . . . to reach . . . constant . . . oh, it is here finally
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this is the truest understanding to me . . . undeniable life-spring*
S T, 29 Augmented 2013
globe spins on . . . time for a beach-walk and smell that fresh, salty air . . . despite whatevr :) not gonna go bitin' me elbows.
sub-entry : heron’s call
sparkle of dew on leaf-tips trail of dead earthworms flattened by the wheels . . . on wet tar feel the veritable tremors of the heron’s call . . . echo beseeching to the others
muted rumours of a vagrant’s death in hostile chill against backdrop of giant stone-face table-cloth long dissipated . . . by now icicles hang with plaintive air in another realm of land-locked drought where obscenely-rich jetsetters sport their latest Pontiac or Porsche subconsciously remember bonds of care amidst tipsy tinkles of flibbertigibbets a drink the cost of their kin’s weekly wages and deign to pop with cordial air-kisses and leftover-humanity to down-and-broke parents who offer freshly-steeped oolong to half-hearted ingrates
stepping aside the hangman’s hope round that perilous bend into that iconoclastic gut’s-trail as smeared revealings whose juddering disciple turns out not a plagiarist shows he had seen the lofty bird take flight and burst to flame before their latent eyes
dismay can well hold hands with anticipated pitch yet leather-strapped feet trudge on as not only eyes, but meagre spool rolls on . . . closer . . . closer . . . closer every moment framed by minded pellucidity
hands in ill-assorted gloves . . . no matter they fit all fine and fitting wholly . . . within that heron’s call
it all fits somehow . . . in the trans-coloured emblem of a winded prism wǒ ài nǐ