(2014)
Perplexity breathes Into the hearts of all men In heart beat matters We shy our true intent like An elephant in the vent
Once my beating heart Matched steel drum lines to-to-toe Teaching metronomes But now my beat has fallen Into syncopated depths
The darkest of nights It is on these nights I turn To these keys, clicking Fervently beyond reason Behind safely shadowed doors
Tiny flashing lights Figures entwine together Closer and closer ‘closer than ever’ they say Beside our computer screens
Twelve in numbered spin Once reaching double digits Feel the crisp brisk sweeps Sudden gentle remainders Subtle breath of orange array
A sudden waking From formless blinking through dre… Please, just one more year! Surprised to glance the moon’s fac… An hour before her phase
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
Why does music speak Without line or threads of time We plug ourselves in Forming an echo cocoon Never wanting to come out
A midst cold classrooms Seemingly short dialect Audio-connect Slowly frozen hearts will drip As conversations bubble
Such an empty sky Countless pensive glances are Over and over Swallowed swift, before their time If only I could keep them
To puddle one’s words Few are willing to admit Myself least of all To fall and land upon earth Closer to Earth than before?
Delicate surprise From behind blind-folded eyes That glint of glitter Sprinkle, sprinkle, floating down We reach out, we grasp, we drink
Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name
Archaic toiling Through endless character streams To drown deeper still Beneath black and white waters Until I breathe symbolly
To hide in plain sight Something we all yearn for, but Our differences Do not belong in the mud For mud cannot be polished
