It’s morphine, the words, the books
The dull clutch of sanity warping the hole
into a palatable swallow
Years drive varied diseases vantage poisons
to fancy anesthesia
In lacquered gleams upon the table a hand descends
To pick a cup, vial, syringe, belief system,
page
Chips like coins of sandy dust glassed in
vessels
To expunge malicious credit accrued
A devil’s debtor’s prison lock shackle struck
indentured
To an understanding that this appliance is
the only space to hide
The binding of the library covers like
epidermis sheets
To unfold and crawl inside the mind of
another human’s madness
The escape gag, the lifeboat dingy in the
great big ocean
Hours of maze time rented amongst the dead
The ones who knew there is no place safe
The yawn of the universe mires consciousness
The racks, the food-stuffs, the techno-gyros
Are illusionist’s prestige in a mirrored
appearance
The gaping circus is a refraction of ideas
about ideas
How one approaches the high wire is more
critical
Than if one falls or traverses the exposure
The exposure in itself is a lie; nowhere is
harbor
The enfilade’s reach is absolute because there
is
No alone or together only perspective
Vacationing, exploring daring into the wild wind
canyon ledge
The cityscape Metropolitan framed digital
crutch
The painting, the theater, the masked
burlesque
The quotidian crocodile’s clenched jaw
None of it is special or miraculous
Only effused presence; distance is an
illusion
No matter Thailand, Rio, or New Orleans
The reverberating hum of what love is
Echoes like owl eyes blinking in infinite
darkness
Seeing us, is us, but we see nil, staring at
us always
A perfection of consciousness independent of
location
Time, or matter, we are imbibing the morphine
of the moment
The whisky, the dote to progeny, the dollar
margin call
The holiday-effusiveness gilded in cheer
frosted purpose
Dangling as calendar’s rotate charming
annotations
The blasphemy to stare another human in the
eyes prolonged
Sustained, ambiguous, totality of awareness
To see with them, through, in, and as them
The gobble of consumerist incidences quelled
To be and ask not the petty hungers of how do
I make you feel
How are you in this moment, but to witness
To give the awe of aching movement swarming as
the echo
The gong flush of time careening off the
wire, as the wire, and before the wire
The trepidation, the love, fear, and
accomplishment known and unknown
Beaming out of possibility itself flush in
the duality of cheeks and irises
Panning into and out of the other, being
The books the poetry they are morphine to
digest, to be with
The presence and absence of that realization
Maybe one took to a sports match, a pool cue,
a pipe, a fabric brushed to skin
Tasting that dangle of time, eyes making
liquid poetry
The paradigm that registers with this tongue
The glutton parched and famished in the
aftermath
The depressive cork catapult launched
Some hours reek of death like a lust-lick bullet
to mate
As if escape were available, the maze gave a
rudder on the great big ocean
The stage of the toes on the wire to become
relevant
Laughter haughty and muted in the belly of
such arrogance
There is no end for there was no beginning
Maybe some authors knew and readers are
looking to confirm
The not so kept secret radiating right out
the page
Like nuclear material humming the radix of
the gods
Fantastical prodigious luster
That the hunger to simply be
Be in the universe through the portal of the
self with others
Conveyed and understood in the empathy of consciousness
Addicted to the drug of wanting to be
Knowing how clear the table, how ready to
release grip
On identity, musts, have to’s, will not’s,
and are not able’s
Into is, am, and breathing inhales and
exhales moments
Terrifying luscious drinks of life savored in
tongue to lung
Separating body from the act, seeing every
artistic motion
Of volition to create, risk, and stroke will
to canvas
Being a bead of painted ink
absorbing and dissolving instantaneously