tags: moleskin

2007

July

2007 Jul 13
Jagged Edge

Jagged Edge
        undiscernable
        molecular thickness
shimmering with quantum uncertainty

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2007 Jul 13
Quiet

faded memories half a lifetime away
did I dare, did I dream?
Can I pay that price?
Turn the inside of my soul to the fire
let this aching pain tear at my heart
like some rabid dog gone amok
like piranhas shredding through living flesh

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2007 Jul 25
Burdens

The though was "betrayal"
or maybe it was "onus"
The unpayable debt, the blood price
(And if I paid it, would I be free?)
My memories are of Atlas lifting the world on
                                                        his shoulders
Sisyphus rolling up the Stone.
The karyatid crushed beneath the load…

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2007 Jul 25
Like the Sound of the Waves on the Sea

My soul→seethes, burns
                roils,
This vanity this self-deceit
stripped of all meaning
The noise of the teeming crowd
as wounding as the dead silence

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