Sunday, February 17, 2013

That's precisely my point


And then I realized just how small a point really is. I mean, think about it. It is supposed to occupy a vanishingly small space. It is supposed to exist, but that’s as far as it can go.  You and I see it, so it’s most definitely there, but we shouldn’t be able to perceive it. It isn’t tangible. If I were to lay my finger on it, it would disappear into the contours of my skin after which I might never be able to distinguish it from all the other points that build me. So, in a way, it’s this mysterious, unintelligible quest. It exists, but in passing. It is time itself. And if you try to capture it, it just floats away. Into nothingness. Or points of nothingness.


Draw a line segment,
Draw a shorter line segment vertically above it,
Draw an even shorter one above that,
Then shorter, shorter, shorter,
Shortest.
Draw a point.
Sharpen the pencil and draw a finer point.
Then finer, finer, finer.
Finest.

Draw Nothing.

Friday, February 15, 2013

The Five-petaled Flower


The five-petaled flower
Just swayed in the wind
And appeared as a blur
Of a lonesome stem.

The five-petaled flower
Then shed all its petals
Yet when it swayed
It appeared but the same.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Behead


The words that I bequeath are not yours to quote,
Those words belong to me, they are what I wrote.
Why do you encroach upon my thoughts
And voice the wisdom I sought?
You’re my guise, it is I you fucking feign.
You’re just the tongue, dear,
That calls me the Brain.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Naked


My hands are the link from my mind to reality,
They are but the viands of my sexuality.
They perpetuate my thoughts,
And unravel my lots,
To expose my soul to body, and finality.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

I, Me, Myself


When she spread her arms to receive the world,
Her disjointed shoulders severed the balance.
Her symmetry bellowed into a gullible vacuum of reception.
She looked into the sky, and she did not feel alone,
But she did not feel safe either.
She clasped her hands to trap her strength, and the regularity
Of her figure fused unto her entwined fingers.
Her symmetry carved the sky into mirrored images.
She looked into the sky, and she felt alone,
But she knew she was the God of the only being that mattered.