for Molly
ages of the seasons
your shreds ripped, calling
materials mixed:
moments, memos, mementos
reasons, reasons
some left others gone-
thrown casually as others-
as when fall,
infinite blossoms, deathly still and crackling
out the window looked.
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On First Opening Eyes
On first opening eyes the silently bright piercing light. Eyes eyes broken eyes scheming to again. On first opening eyes the jarring sound of awake and conscious the reality as it catches within unsteady lungs. On first opening eyes scents left to night uprising violent from current peripheral. On first opening eyes swinging feet off the bed and acting on the first promise of the day, tooth brushing, yawning, shitting whatever it may be. Or have been. On first opening eyes, on first promise of day, on second promise of day, those other things disturbing the solitude so perfectly crated, artisan dreams, and the emptiness of the unfulfilled. Sullen and somewhat sleepless still opened eyes break upon new shores of vision, slight cracks opened breaking from folds obscure. This deep deep quiet of oceans below oceans under sea level and you the naive diver unaware of the bends and now the hyperbaric of morning, ah the painful lust of understanding. And here you still are your half-awake self lulled back and forth conveyed to sleep and back to wakeful with worries of before a deluge unending. Over and over you repeat to self, if only ten minutes longer, if only, the feeling much softer, much better. And suddenly a soft sweetness, the first song of morning, the heavenly sound of gentle vocals hum of accompaniment. Swaying slightly on her little breeze and rhythm of movement, too, sinking in. Moments and moments later you will remember this moment and the tranquil alive rushing through to a heady place. Attracting floes of thought and now the speedway has been opened difficult impossible to shut, revel in it. Finishing last exercises and things undone. Do what you came to do and get out. Out into the vast globe and compression of matter, force uplifting downtrodding and out you go go go. The shattering of before now a picking up and regrouping, collected almost you feel and brilliance descents as if from gods. Praise the Lord, one shouts in the distance, and you do not object. And from first opening eyes to first activities of day, the swinging pendulum swings sweet.----------------Southerly winds and sudden heat. Pages sliced beachside while sipping sangria. Summer at the Seashore, Hamptons.
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