thanking musicians
hollow-toned wood when
touched by skin
echoing chambers
transfiguring breath
pressing strings,
our fingers sing
the physical act
of music is alchemy.
compressed sighs converging
blistery digits consorting
sore backs summoning us into
exploration of unknown depths
worlds unfold, universes split
realities alternate, moments replay
unsaid words are said at last
our haunting ‘what-ifs’ are given flesh
the swelling tide, the gradual fade
we are left more ourselves
on the edge of the [...]
landscape of the soul
the landscape of the soul
sprawling apocalyptically
through waking thought,
twilight shades of memory,
and labyrinthine apparitions
during the eye’s rapid
yet sheathed voyages
through dark oceans
of oblivion.
emerging out from underneath
scattered forms disengaged
through feathery epiphanies and
many-eyed seraphim
inhabiting restlessly the cricket-croaking
of a moon-eyed summer night.
wind singing through pine needles;
angelic chorus intermezzo.
the boundless deep
we spend our days
in the face of
finds us all in one [...]
