To Wait
A dark day to dare flight; clouds colliding, a weight too cumbersome for a perpetual perpetration; some perfect weather. Oh to break free from the bastion of bastards and to sunder the snags; see the swelling sun! Laudable, lingering, lavishing the light! I am Pariah, puttering to my pew; shuddering in shit, held sheltered; bent, buried, burnishing my belly. In an amniotic amnesty, hailing a hellish amen!
Fire Place
Without a doubt in our mind, we never cared to warn
the visitors as they strode in to hang up their feet
in a shameless effort to warm their soles against the
prideful fire; which cackled with a conscious, pure vigor
emanating a sweet aroma as they burned fat,
repeatedly flinging it on the flame, taunting it
to get a rise from the now angered element
that reacted proudly as we ducked outside, unmarked
by the god inside; unchained, now cackling louder.
All within the room lost their senses while we waited;
patient, humbled. We watched as the wooden apertures
submitted to the blaze without resistance; blinking
rapidly while the smoke, with graceful ascendance, rose
to the trees and blanketed the frenzied fire until
it was satiated and lucid once more. We bowed.
Intercepting Jun-Fan (Bruce Lee)
Above a vast campus with
no intentions
as I walked across the terrain;
just stepping toward
what seemed like the only other human in sight.
Breaking through the distance I could see what
looked like a raw whip; a fresh branch
unattached.
Both suns cast shadows off scholarly pillars
composing an opaque grid over
what would become our bastion of battle.
There was no motion;
I decided to speak.
But instantly I’m cut off
by this insignificant man,
who introduced himself.
I am the subtle tide.
He spoke with flowing dignity;
a river—unrelenting and without pause
yet he was a pool—gentle,
reflecting my glances
and measuring each of my breaths
as he stood still, rippling—
my eyes flinched.
I found myself a weed in the water —
surrounded; as he crashed once again
intercepting me. Defeated I asked
if I could learn that.
He laughed earnestly and said
no, but I could certainly become it.
