Tools

Build up a wall of words and hums
Tear it down
Reverberations
Crashing through the universe
Waves of fluorescent energy
Giddy vibrations of thought

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Reach inside the mouth of the monster
Your gorgon mistress
Your half twin
Your reflection in a pool of quicksilver
Death just around the corner
Promises of pomegranates on chapped lips

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Lightning rod existence
Wires shooting out in all directions
Charged with the power of thousands of years of howls
Wave upon wave
Touching the far reaches of the everything
Brushing away dust

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


A slow and steady march
Drumbeat settling below your sternum
Sunlight sucked out of the sky
Life trudges on, grits its teeth
Swallows the frost
Thrives in the valley of death

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Rigid path breaks in two
You search for the poetry
But it falls away in the blackness
Leaving you stripped
Leaving you stripped
Leaving you stripped

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Drown in the intoxicating memories of smells
Heavy pumpkin spice and warm apples and cinnamon
Grab on to the ginger
Pull it close
Keep it inside
Curl in on yourself

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Explosion of soul
Radiating from the epicenter of your solar plexus
Words torn violently from your throat
Raw power of will taking you along with it
Ravenous and rapacious
Scream to Orion

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Words play on the toss of a coin
Layers of dissension and hope
You must be able to read
Read with your heart and soul
Grab the center
Pull it through to the space just before your heart

Goes silent.


Goes silent.


Goes silent.


The circle of existence has returned to this position of sleep
And I am waking yet again
Starting on a trajectory of brilliant promise
Which will fizzle out when the world shakes itself
But I will sleep under a hot Georgia sun
And wake again in the darkness

Goes silent.