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Soft words Are trapped and entangled Among themselves When voices explode And level the silence – Shaken and stalled In the creeping barrage, I shield them and tunnel From the blistering light – My frightened words tussle To blare into existence, Miles underground Beyond the boast of thunder – While the powerless trade fire At…
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Beneath a rippling surface People thrive in circles, Around and unfazed By the rising bubbles – Most are comfortably sunk For months and for years Never mind the scalding walls Of their iron cauldron – A scream resounds too late When their world foams over And they float away in silence To the riotous brine…
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A long-lost afternoon Takes root and flowers, As a conquering dream Claiming parcels of the mind – I feel its currents rise Taking hold of my waist, Its rays tracing my skin Its salted island breeze – I still see the red coral Resting on its bed of sand, Through the clear windowpane Of that…
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Cold I’m no longer to blame, My cut cord will mend As I rise from their fists – And I’ll have no guide To revere and chase As when their world was vast And far from collapse – Still, I’ll crash land Every now and then Giving back their lost breath When our colossal silence…
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Trained eyes Trace the crests and valleys Of tampered ground, Internally scalding With reckonings of fire – The hot and hostile turf Await the lumbering armor, A nudge of tripwire A platoon in the crossfire – Geysers of earth Lend their deafening roar, Commanding every tree and shrub To rain fire – It was…
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I was taught not long ago To shield myself from praise, From every stray word of kindness Shot carelessly in the breeze – Taught to make myself small By both predator and prey In their feral circles Of victims and victors – Taught to pave my own space But not far from the fire, Where…
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Gathering speed I slide out of the eyes of tomorrow Down a steep secret path Into sweet delirium – Into a hidden joy That I’ve welded within Swallowed whole, the map downward And etched it in memory – I backslide ever faster As the year grinds forward, Sputtering and smoking, Crushing reveries to dust –…
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Emptiness takes and takes Until I am spare, In the ruins of apathy Of sickness, of denial – It gives back after days, Beyond the radius of wrath When the sharp loss dulls And leaves a pale scar – It gives back when I’m leveled And beyond recognition, Beyond the blast, beyond the shock…
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Tread light through your frame of mind, Over broken glass Over a ceiling in shards Over a deepening chasm – Tread light And allow your screams to unfold As you pelt the hard ground With cold rainfall – Stay afloat in the silence Above the snares of the mire When your heart weighs heavy…
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Striving for the surface breeze From the rich black soil, To feel my lungs expand With bottomless greed – On the brittle surface I will gladly surrender To exhaustion’s charms And fevered illusions – Clawing back to the surface Where a desert wind mourns Full of thistle and sand To find refuge in its wrath…
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