Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ode to Memory and Sleep

The faint buzz of swollen noise

Lies in my hearing.

The room swelling & swaying through the

Words hurled at my brain.

The overexposed branches rise up

Behind the tiled grey triangles.

The flushed sky an indistinct thick paste-

Colorless-

Lies heavy above us.

The tone of urgency quick & clipped- slightly reprimanding.

“Fill your mind” before the words dart & bounce

& disappear quicker than little foxes

darting into the cracks in the room. Seeping

through the door & the floor.

Before lies a million tiny hairs stretching

Out their fingers, cautious – waiting

For the unexpected guillotine to quench

Their effort – merciless

& unqualifying.

Deep thin canyons line perpendicular

Fingers. Slowly spreading into

Unidentified grids of red texture.

Clear to blurry to clear. The world fades

In & out slowly, slowly, the

Lid is sinking down – Vignetting

into blackness.

Being led- forced - into a frame work

The cattle drivers of our mental formation

Grates the independent spark that

Flutters, spits, sparks &

Sometimes shrinks so small

-it seems almost nothing is there at

all.

But then the fact of

Oppression comes roaring

Back into a flood of fire.

Life truly is an open

Road stretching far and

Bowling around us. A

Soup of the conglomerate circumstances.

Vaults slamming – flashes

Of strong memory. Strange

Bits- ragged torn-

Blow up & disappear.

Strange- forgotten

Hunger- forgotton

Memory of hunger. Why

Do mouths move in

The rhythm of cyclical

Chewing? Daily, monthly,

Yearly- out of necessity

Or pattern? Living breeds

(thoughts) – thoughts

begat action-

the

nature of Sound & Life

&memory. Grab the rope

the splintered strands

together give strength

to the whole. In life is hope.


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