The Sightless Ascent
You were plodding on a gangplank
Several stories out of reach...
I was watching like a setter
That was dragging at his leash...
Missing seconds piling over this great
Myriad of stars...
I felt lost amongst the masses
As their bodies braced the bars...
There was foment...
Many triggers
Had been tripped here
Overnight...
I still wonder, lying dormant
If an end
Lies well
In sight...
Now back-tracking from
Dark route you came...
All the dirt and scrap descend
Tumbling like ash from your
Balance act;
Falling further out of frame...
Maybe if you noticed you would
See a hand
Several miles down,
And clothed
In the twilight of the infinite
Where peculiar flowers grow...
Can you hear that cough?...
Do the desert nights
Where the coyotes cry out
Liberate old trappings of your soul
That you had never
Aimed to scout?...
You were plodding on a gangplank
Several stories out of reach...
I was watching like a setter
That was dragging at his leash...
Missing seconds piling over this great
Myriad of stars...
I felt lost amongst the masses
As their bodies braced the bars...
2/18/24
Bunny Villaire
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