Shadows on the Other Side

Whispering avoidance in detuned song,

lyrical – well-versed gestation, hissing in meaning,

tuned in and wrapped outward

Seek to enclose the orb within a sphere

                        The fog bank –

Godspeed, my friend. Around mangled curvatures,

unfolding passes and shaken rag ridges,

into scope of elevation, vicariously

Context of a hidden moment

projected into violet spring hues

through gnarled embankments

Staggering… Shining…

Spurring scene warms, bittersweet,

choking on the pill and its packaging

Sights signify, signs comply,

scenery paints a path of escape,

enclosed in certainty of passage,

informing eyes and conscience,

with shadows on the other side

Overheard and overseen,

the tiniest brushstroke on canvas so vast, its vexing

finality of living motion and rippled earth-toned pattern,

careening toward dusk – interminable fade,

downcast and damned toward

all future spatial interludes

Some rung, awaiting,

in muddled remembrance of the void

Percentages in cycles, positions eroded

in prayer, forever lost,

fodder to preying interlopers –

                        erasure

The near hypnotic highway rhythm

transmits vision, transcribes refuge…

Snapshots, committed memory and speculation,

landscape reminder of future highest use,

remains and relics

Hysteria passing lanes and jammed signals,

transmission crossed, reception trained

Static bred through mourning’s season,

breaching cracked from veering sight,

from the year of our lord,

the distribution

In fear, security, voiding reprehension,

black stare encased in corner of the eye,

shepherded and fed,

belied

Disturbance threads a vantage point,

Metastasized, submerged in craters

Wrecked exposure draining,

cyst of deliverance

MM 2/17