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1478, Theodoros Pelecanos, Public Domain

Each day is a process

of reconciliation’s stain, upon

the evening’s resolve, dissolving

into folds of a void, shifted through

tension fields and projected

throughout the night’s pattern

of restful disturbance, craning

interruptions

Morning’s horizon beckons

in ominous first light, alighting

a new pattern of mounting

tension cured only by the human

stain of fractured opiate

connection to the first hit

of technology cased

to the dementia, unwinding

symptoms of the dawning day

Repay, wait,

it creeps into your dreams

Matt Mauldin
6/2017
Santa Barbara, CA

Appears in Patterns of Reconciliation