Mise en Scene

(Mise en Scène* ‘meez on sen’ - French theatrical term meaning “placing on stage.”) A word has weight I weigh each word lest the wrath of god unbinds the bird that holds the night inside its throat where destinies of hate emote pin my mouth into a smile and lock the words into a vial that sits within the twisted vine dereliction deep design hello! goodbye? nothing to say? in dream my words will slip away when deep in sleep the mind takes flight somnambulant parasite inside my mouth a flake of moon into my eyes cold oceans swoon heave and swell my body seize in silent! silent! frequencies hey there! hear that? ah, nor do I! pins of light my lullaby pierce the flesh into design inking shifting paradigm asleep I burn myself no love and immolate the wounded dove threshold a catastrophic guise unconsciousness I weaponize I do not mean… that is to say… duality I whip away there is no ‘I’ in enemy but why am ‘my’ at war with ‘me’? in enemy both interlace the super ego face-to-face I see me now! now I am caught! catastrophic juggernaut porous space the now and then god’s domain the mise en scène place my house upon his sea then breathe it into mystery