dehiscence

My dear I wondered about you
without ever saying your name
followed the epic only
to peer inside of a lonely song
looked and look to going to end
in some unknown end of absence
in warm eyes and an echoing touch


this now is a coin sinking towards
a desperate and uncertain wish
then let this emptiness be the gift
something you’ve sent on ahead
a dark thrown open and counting
out the seconds till your voice


a bridge does not span its own divide
but is appointed between two shores
ocean. an ocean! its open depth
matter made neon blue and red with clay and foam
yellow shocks blaze through orange folds
in every green murmur life's embrace
air wings, breath voice, color light


...so where's the mistake if pairs
are normally bound? why the far off promise
in blindness, lopsided, instead of sight?
this distance envelopes the abyss


I, once ready and eager, shudder
cold and still, hollow, and diffused
as substantial as any perfect dream
awakened to drift towards oblivion
thunder walks quietly into the room
small and as unannounced as solitude
and echoes a hushed destruction
its the real that persists, with depth
the durable that's made for mutual reach
risk is where future's shadow is cast
I've been a black mirror in a frozen night
and where you weren’t you never will be


now as private as death, love enters
as fruit enters the sky
growing from the same root
to perish in the explanation

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