Posts Tagged ‘aging’
drag the Lotus seed
March 14, 2013Appreciating the Corner
May 9, 2012appreciating the corner
In the corner is a space
where stacked are bits of other corners
warps and wefts, porous and knocking.
they lean, waiting, quietly subdued,
tilted and jumbled, gathering dust
and like grandma’s sofa, wrapped,
in preparation for a celebration.
That crushed velvet never felt
the wind upon it, in her lifetime.
But someone somewhere now
might make a raincoat of its covers one day; especially
since it had a built in zipper which
went from corner to corner to corner to corner
So similar will
the still filling colors in squares of all sizes and age,
eventually be lit with light or fire;
keeping someone
warm or dry or inspired.
They too containing a zipper;
being unseen, unheard, utterly unborn,
with corners in the corner
of the boundless corner.
the resolution of Dorian Gray
December 29, 2011
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the resolution of Dorian Gray
a portrait, with its scars, sins, and cavernous despairs
is created for a token, given endless youth
then hidden
a reflection in a mirror
grand history stretching rainbow
make-up written on the face
and in the cellular structure of all beings
is more than false, more than paste, the true jewel
bending with the flow of change
a willow on a flooding river
a blade of grass underfoot
the rise and fall of bodys’ breath
this year’s new vow, a resolution of flexibility
to see through and attend like the knife
that pierced and freed poor Youth’s heart; releasing
its’ crisp and sweet, from the craquelure of varnish
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