As/Is







5.16.2005


beatificities

1/
gray pronunciation stalls
leakage of light
within the eye
considering
the drive north
and purpose brought
to touch-read surface
still inferred
along an interstate apart
from one degree of freedom

2/
how many aspirations
does it take
to stretch
the eyesight
in which vigilance
has overtaken free-form posture
negligent amid presumed
worlds averaging some
measure of fuel

3/
the purpose of writing
down the facts
and infidelities
is never to decipher
voltage from its absence
rather to condone spontaneous
new growth where
metalscrap has prevailed

4/
insolvency of heart
yields while not
yielding anymore if
ever the poverty
remains intact a deeper
paucity bleeds through
the rigid skin
pale next to
luminescence more contagious
than each recipe for loss

5/
indulgence grows few
children fewer trees
results in tippled
levels ready for
the discard pile
no plane can rescue
although hope resils
its way through most
unlikehood

6/
presence limited to this
moment is catalogued among
infractions of procession
meant to mark daylight
in the foreground
of habitual darkness
candling through resolute
intact replenishings
averting eyes yet
owning a preliminary
bounty to be brought
alive