Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Inquiry of The Sphinx.



The rooster calls from behind the veil
The city stuffs the white sheets of sleep into its shadows
The streets shine with caution and opportunity
The woman walks, her mouth filled with hope
The tumblers sit empty, dirty, forgotten on the counter.


The breeze inhales the still life of for ever
The prairie lies in wait, eager to pounce upon a shadow
The parasols slowly yawn open
The boy on the stoop tightens his crisp shoestrings
The tumblers, an afterthought, are cleaned until a shine resides upon their walls


The sleepy progress of the sun displays its plumage
The unbearable shadows of dusk arrive
The flowers bid a salutation to the waning sunlight
The smells of evening drift in like shadows through open windows
The tumblers are frozen and filled to the brim then sucked upon


The royalty of the sky meet at the black round table
The streets mourn for yesterday
The depths of this bed live for ever
The people walk down the shores of sleep and into the seas of dreams
The tumblers are set empty onto the counter.


~Will you go hunting for the marshmallow coast with me?

Amor,
Digress.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Reaching Down for the Whispers of a Shadow.


At three in the afternoon the bell chides like Velcro peeling apart
At exactly three in the afternoon the sun reaches down with the legs of a spider

The locusts creak; uneasy in their skeletons;
They leap
From edifice to edifice
Weltering in the stillness of the spider's legs
As though stillness produced a quake, a quiver;

A terpsichorean trauma

All things moving to escape the stillness
Knowing that no saw or sword
Could free the heart.

The katydids move with diligent sorrow
They are conscious that the stillness is upon them

While feasting

The katydids hear the branches whisper
And they echo the message;
No challis will hold the heart.



~Yo. ¡Sólo yo! Labrando la bandeja donde no irá mi cabeza. ¡Sólo yo!

Amor,
Digress.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Lotus Blossoms.


The Lotus beckons
Like the docile streets of night
The Lotus beckons

Out in the square
Voices carry the luggage of a hundred travellers
The buckles are about to burst!
Love walked away with 30p
Autumn dances an endless waltz with the Breeze
The Breeze leans forward and runs his fingers through Autumn's grasses

Out in the estuary
The chimeric song of an open flame
Echoes against the cliffs
The trees gaze down on the tide with looks of empty clay jars
Ocean blows a kiss to the Moon
The Moon hugs Ocean in an embrace that stretches from Monday to Wednesday

In the streets of towne
The buildings squint through the night
Watching the vagrants pass
The beldames sweep the broken spirits from East to West
Dogs howl at the Abyss of Stars
The Abyss of Stars listens with the ears of galaxies.

The Lotus beckons
Like the docile streets of night
The Lotus beckons


~Sharpen The Saw.


Loves,
Digress.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Like Love, The Archers Are Blind.


A black leopard sings the song of the sea

A photograph of silence
Rests against a wall of deviance
Broken glass scrapes against eye lids
Echoes caught in sinking seines
Delivering a bounty of broken wings and frozen time.

A white leopard sings the song of the stars

Scything is the memory
Calling alone from the balcony
Still and without fruit stands the tree
Night walks down cobblestone streets
Overwhelming kitchens and fortunes.

A kodkod sings the song of the moonrise

A purse of fears
Envelops the broken mirror
The lotus quickly learns to revere
Wax and wane metamorph through the nights
Abandoning the fortress and the light.



~La escala llega a la luna. Córtame la sombra.

Love,
Digress.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

35

I wish I could tell you...
that your anger is misplaced and you are so much better than that
that you are beautiful and those hurtful words will fade with time
I wish you knew that your success is in your hands
and you are so capable
I wish words could explain
how worried I am about your future
such a good kid in such a scary misguided world
stuck in the inbetween

Be yourself.
Please.
Be yourself.

Your innocence is so precious - treasure it
keep throwing frosting and swinging on swings and being grossed out by body parts
When I say "sit safe" I mean "I love you" and "I am watching out for you"
Your intelligence is a gift - treasure it.
Your smile makes my exhaustion disappear - wanna read to me?
When faced with the choice between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Choose the doctor
Replace that swagger with square shoulders and a head held high
Never stop excelling.
Your silence is compelling - it makes your voice sweet and rewarding
Always ask for a hug
discovering yourself is terrifying
but hiding from yourself is much more difficult
Never grow that mean bone
If I could bottle up some of your quirky sunshine
I would carry it in my pocket every day
I hope your judgements of people are always as simple as
"Whoever's name I pull is really weird...or really awesome"
Some people might think You are really weird (but I think you are really Awesome)
Please try - with everything you do, do your best
Keep asking others to play
Choose your friends wisely - beware of "guilty by association"
Never ever call yourself stupid (or at least don't believe it)
Be confident - you have something to contribute, even if you don't know what it is
You are priceless.
You are beautiful.
You are smart, funny, incredible...
You touch my heart daily.

It Is On The Surface.

It rained for days.
And everything was
Wet
Wet
Wet

And

I went and lay down
Face to the sky
Mouth open wide
Rain pouring in
In hopes I would
See the reaper
In the field,
Coming to harvest his
Wheat.

No
Such
Luck.

For I have angered the gods.


~Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies.


Love,
Digress.

Saturday, May 01, 2010

J'ai Pas Peur.

I've been trying to write letters but
All I can come up with are
Callous postscripts and paper cuts.
These messages go un-read in my
Un-sent box.

The tearstained papers with empty passages
Bleed their ink on my desktop.
When I try to wipe up the blood,
The letters I wrote with hallow quills
Stain my hands.

Under these dim lights
The messages creep up and
Re-create themselves
Into the shape of
Sinister post scripts
And you can see on my face
What I forgot to mention.



~Drawers full of broken wings.

Very Truly Yours,
Digress.

yEStERYEar