air flows over everything

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 .
.
.
spring time
everything crawling
up
& out
.
as the wind doze blow
my sad in festering joyous self
through wires
.
musicality draws life onwards endlessly
the way typing this out is a naturally budding thing
.
Am I a plant? I wish I was a plant.
I think I am a plant.
reaching towards the sun?
.
everything downpours eventually
sew this is all just water flowing
 
melting freezing melting pouring pooling
.
evaporating
.
this is air
makes a sound
.

music reaches directly into the softcore of my being

dissecting every line
.
speaks into the centre of my bleating heart
.
why would i ever stop listening?
.
being seen. being heard. being truly sound.
unsound
that’s the rub.
.
.
.
glut of stories untold untelling

life is beautiful and in puddles

.

wee fondle and finger the absent image
it still burns
.
.
.

falling still

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Great emptiness as

simple as that went

So straight before-

 

had not been able

then not being idle

went absent away

 

Now faith is not what we

hereafter have we have a

world resting on nothing

 

Rest was never more than

abstract since it is empty

reality we cannot escape

 

from “Souls of the Labadie Tract” by Susan Howe

skyspat out a little flame

birdspiral spit
detail from birdspiral painting

warming mind

swaying girth
spanning time
brief pockets of sun
(the streaming kind)

lantern domes make muffled sounds
(momentarily illuminating mine)

flickering embers in campfire’s bowl
little lapping, licking flames
jamming survival in newborn coal
this fire is never tame

 
-jessica gabriel (2008)