Five Easy Pieces

poetry

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Soul Rendezvous

(after Asuka Hotaru)

When the night looks the other way
and the moon grabs the clouds for cover
and the clouds call Make Up for a little blush
our secret immortal selves 
slip out to make their acquaintance
well before eye or hand.

Veridream

It's the one where 
I’m standing at the top
of the mountain
and waving the others 
to come along
but there are no tracks
no sherpa, just echoes
of a long fall.

Eclipsara

Your body continues 
to go through the motions
long after you’re gone.
Some warmth is still there
like an electric blanket
beginning to short circuit.
Is it snow you seek?
You’re so far north now.
I don’t know who you are.
Won’t you come back?
Your body and I miss you.

Lacrimaire

When your mind is empty
or filled with dopamine
the music swells
like an untelevised
act of kindness.
Typhoons of tears 
you’ve held
back for years
create a sinkhole.
A self-contained 
well to drown in.

Novalepsis

I’ve felt the terror of beauty
trembled at her knee.
Parting the order from the chaos
humbly gaining entrance.
Was lifted to the highest 
branch of a tree.
Felled by a single snowflake 
containing the whole universe.
Tasting like a vanilla wafer 
the three of us dissolving 
on my tongue.