There's a beauty in falling
which only the fallen know.
A moment of suspense, hesitation,
as your wings don't quite catch the air
before suddenly you are Icarus, immortal,
a plume of feathers on the waves.
There's a beauty in drowning
which only the drowned know.
A moment of breathlessness, emptiness,
as your lungs refuse the water
before suddenly you are Phlebas, immortal,
bones on the sea bed.
There's a beauty in hanging
which only the hanged know.
A moment of constriction, levitation,
as all the weight is lifted from your shoulders
before suddenly you are Antigone, immortal,
a body suspended in a cave.
There's a beauty in
There sits the makings of a fool
among the stars.
There he sits planting dreams
upon the sky.
Would there be dreams there?
Would there be planets, stars,
and wheels;
rotating, revolving,
and pressing forth?
Would there be a women there
made of incandescent space?
Would there be a man
with grizzled eyes,
who drives and turns the tides?
And would there be a dream
that germinates above?
To the sky he gives a gift of smoke,
slowly birthing from his mouth.
Curling into blackness,
like the puss – spewing forth
from sundered flesh.
Oh, a dream!
A dream filled humour
treks the stars and veins of heaven!
A dream! Would there be a dream
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Dedication: I mistook a fig tree for its fruit.
Siddhartha sat under the Bodhi tree
but he could not make it grow.
He could not stop the leaves from falling,
he could not tell the fruit to ripen,
nor the birds to cease their singing.
But he sat under the Bodhi tree
and was content –
for he had shelter, food, and song.
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diagnosis: incorporeality
an arachnoid asteroid
devoid of diploids
a humanoid inhuman
inhumane, profane and
lethal.
the fibreoptic eroticism
inventor of sophistry
egomaniac philosophy
the pioneer of freudian
slips;
slickly i scour away
leaving my mind awake
myopic tendency,
chemical reactivity
left
silicon skinned thing
scuttles to the gutter
rustles in the mutters of
wind and a paranoid
skip
and what remains is
tattered or slain
a robotic insignia
for fallen and sinking
down
what's in a body
sympathetic, skill in
arithmetic, asthmatic
lungs and a heart to
beat.
this is the one-way street.
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what could we write about
part i.
maybe the way translucent leaves shine with sunlight
filtering through verdant branches.
[it's your soul, hiding beneath breaths of
life and shining with pale sin.]
part ii.
or the way you fall in love
for the very first time.
[the kiss was backlit with
stars--
her eyes held cosmic terrors]
part iii.
and the metamorphosis of birth in a
microcosm of life, a precious utopia torn apart,
but we will return one day and our hearts will be
healed in uncorruption once more.
[growing pains start early,
as a Phoenix falls, another must take its burden.]
part iv.
but do you remember how
your morning tea
would swirl with
I was sixteen when I saw the garden for the first time. The flowers weren't exotic; the same kinds grew in the park across the street. There was just something about how the sunlight hit their petals that made me stop on the sidewalk. I spent a moment admiring a flower with curling leaves like the pages of old books, and I wondered how I'd never noticed the garden before.
A woman knelt between the rows of plants. She had dark hair that tumbled over one shoulder and sweat on the back of her neck. "What's your name?" I asked.
"Sappho," she said.
"I like your garden." I leaned against the fence as I watched her work. "The flowers in the park