Rest Impediments

Public Domain

The voice is time draining

its remains through caustic

enclosures, cataclysmic rhythms

raining down god-like structure

on intransigent position

recording its internal dialog

with a well-formed void of spirit

in reeling space

The gray glow outside

casts a hollow sheen surreal

quaking overturned buds kicked off

the tops outstretched and clinched unflowered

spread about the staggered steps

among the ransom’s reason

brought out of solitude unresting

in space invaded

The immediacy in closed eye

fields magnified beyond infernal

periphery pervasive enveloping the voice

piercing the slack surfacing

the perimeter of your person

bridging the barriers of renewal

cross-flowing numb tension

in rest impediments

The words in transposition

line their attack feigning indignity

of the speakers’ holy position within

audible patterns and pieces intersecting      

rims and casings within visions

colored by meters of moments and mileage

unmarked in their distance remaining

unnumbered

Matt Mauldin
6/2017
Santa Barbara, CA

Appearing in Patterns of Reconciliation