He meets a "stranger"
& his world unfolds
Like the hands of a wild creature
His birthday
Can't divide
Heartbreak from Hope
Guiding signs manifest
and disappear
like rope
Surfacing half submerged on a
World of slippery slopes...
Unguarded Heart in the Great Society;
Siding with dreams
That subvert anxiety
Thru ineffable filters
He anticipates
Waits
And strolls...
Thru cemeteries silent
but the echos of trains
Thru abandoned chapels crumbling
with microcosmic strain
Thru alleyways of bine
Breaking pavement wet with rain;
Halifax
Empty at night
New Blooms
Of possibility
In the penetrating Light
Figurate waves of warmth
Intricate shadows
Shades of pastel
-the passive integration
of another summer's love
Poetic attempts invigilate
Pervasions of summer's essence
That escalate in urban ruins
& collude in
Political presence...
His thoughts & his degree
Could never sever
Surprise
From a Future of
Omnipotent signals
Or their cadence of disconsolate sighs
Moments
at long last
retire the final try
to a pane that mediates
and frames
perception's shifting eye;
The felicitous collision
of structure & rain
succeeds the
throne of language
to explain
what he can't explain
as he folds back in
from whence he came;
Ensconced
in Rainfall
in Nightfall
in Modicums of Improbable Empathy
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