testament
still in the
skeleton
building stage
framework, support, shell -
any arbitrary definition
will do
I do
work slow
and will flesh IT out later
IT being whatever
I claim as testament
I've dragged
this work
between dimensions
shouldered it
from one life to the next
pillowed my head
with it
sleeping beneath stars
of other galaxies
sat staring at it, perplexed,
for eons
then,
as always, I build -
sacred geometry guiding
my hand as I insert
another rib
or fix another joint
just as ancient
intuition will when
time comes to apply
the first layers
of clay
its surface etched
with
my interpretations -
to be
made permanent by
heat of
distant suns
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neutrino
passes
through
always
forward from
one star
system
to
another
one particular
domino
starting a wave
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lips sewn into silence
with copper thread
drawn from the
lamp lady's
hem
railcars
at sidings
wait again for dark service
first to rise are first
to ride
then will go
associates to a cause
then those who dare
raise voices
two second warnings are
sufficient according
to internal documentation
explanations?
no need
threats will be put down
clear evidence
not required
for evidence of such
is too great a burden
when sanctioned to
quell uprisings
the sound of the
valve being opened
can be heard
just behind
blinding
clouds
rolling across trenches
crossing thresholds
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still closing eyes
in places
of gathering
isolating
voices
in crowded
spaces
how many
at this point
does not matter
it has yet
to find me
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sent into
this
nest of silence
a
chest of voices
under my care
I fear
unprepared
to relinquish
the only
key
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here
we have
guilt
waiting
in a most
comfortable
chair
grin disappearing
a slow moving
product of memorizing
a growing list
of annoyances
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looking south
wishing on this night
to be the hand
raising sail
to astral wind
to lay on an ether deck
and think of nothing
rising only should
nothing emerge
a crow
and I
carrion