Thursday, June 11, 2009

anxiety

thick as southern air--
swamp mist and iron rain-

falls into my muscles
like venom--

my flesh liquid as wish
fulfilling physics

into its down-dropping
surge toward  Will

pooling like a stasis
in the brain pan of a 

some fake mystic
who never saw past his

move through the gunnels
of some heavenly terrace

he imagined once to be
his vision of the Infinite--

     here only does even
the anxious ignorance

wash down  fresh as
blooming in a yard of one's own

acquiescence

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what heart now to broach
on the question of loneliness--

none

no one is alone--
no one need say a thing--

only

the heart would do so
that did not know itself


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                         Content (c) 2008-2009 Philip Milito.

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