Reoccurring Characters

 

Every night

the black canvas projects

  the ceiling

 illuminates curtains

drawn shadows

  operating covert

 figures in the back

 of my eyelids

 

Magnification

  an orb atop her

 shoulders, with bolts

of purple neon

 current,

 

 bolts

   and beaded eyes

 broadcasting doubt

decreeing inquiry

  surveying

 surrounding me

 

 Voluminous imprints

reoccurring acts

  flourish

 incremental

then exponential

  then crawling

 then seeping through

gray-scaled plasma

   splayed through corners

 felt beyond just

   peripheral vision

 

 The weary structure

  of bones, its face,

 eyes recede as

sunken soil

  hollowed out

 in another time

 

characters are there

  choreographed

 imagined

  feet not moving

 words not meaning

   signals in silence

 slipping away

 referencing loss

the lack of closure

 

MM 11.2024