There is always going to be another
wallet packed with better credentials
A face, numbers lying to a license to
smear the cycles of fortnights
As if the hours were boomerangs coming
back with better refrains
Than the hand from which they came
Pacing in rooms spun in circles of dirt
wearing feet numb tilling the earth
The way outside wanders in, a pasture
explodes and where to begin
A voice heard inside a single voice
banging the under-skull for a better version of dull
An excitement one can handle with the
pursuit of a novel label
To be a perfume wafting a collar, the
mascara of a darker lover
The inch to reach the out of touch
shelf, the purer heart to fool the castle guards
That one was fit to enter, the draw
bridge of conclusions latched
Peering down in an aftermath beyond the
taste of clandestine lies
Being what one appears spending time and
time for the wave of master spies
To be the dancer on the high-wire tight
twirling timeless expressions for a circus of gazers
A forever-star in the lights squinting
to see the mirage like a nova because
The package for the night was measured
to fit the seamstress’ prize
Caught in the moment and forgotten the
next; spending the month
Bartering fear of rejection for the
mysterious cupboards of love
What is left by a condiment with molded
bread, sugar and rancid tea
Honey with no bees to keep; barren holes
for accoutrement regrets
There will always be a better sense, a
firmer hand and a more modern blend
The mirror dancing was the old you
trying to get out
Forgetting broken glass was not a
reflection, but the chance
Passed on in bending signs that judgment
calls those who choose
Mature before, younger than that now and
how and how to crawl back
To the things you use to know; open the
stories a gray boy once told
Him and I walking side by side, faces in
the sky, ears next to the grass
Hearing heaven in the lies of hell, here
as simple as the shell
Of crawling out a hermit’s home in the
fashion of a twice mortgaged loan
for a life that was already his
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