Parallel Lives
parallel lives
fleeting neutrinos
electrons
photons
gravitons...
turn on the light
turn up the volume
rouse the thought
bolster the idea
flash the dream
are those dreams
do dreams undream
pages
inscribing words accounts
balancing sums illogically unbalanced
words that mean a little less than non-sense
in the waking state
does the brain trip up the mind
the thinking I
where do
other unbendable rules apply
other norms
other ends
for simple adding acts
or does the brain permit the flush
in its routine memory cleansing
jettisoning
words on the palpable page
fleshed out words
upright print
countable sums on balanced sheets
and the rhythm that distends then breaks with the imperfect
rhyme
who sings in the quiet of the grey matter folds
mermaids stroking sleek streaming hair over hived clacking
scales
what deep jungle tom-toms call to the air with verve
no human pulse can endure
where the quantum speed of arrangement rain poems on an
invisible time-curved screen
no hand writes
no I thinks
no bodyprint survives the speaking flirtatious crinkly crusty page
only the tangle of the doubt
was it you who wrote/spoke that which you cannot recall in full
how many the querulous whos roaming lost in the outworn labyrinths of your sleep
coursing with neurons
trapped in synapses
swinging the trapezes of the sternum
the antebellum
blackholing reservoirs
the gateway divide
into other dimensions
or is it all just a mangled bungle of the hazy muddled
consciousness seen through twisted cataract prisms
taking lackadaisical stock of yet another straightened-jacket ironcast day
From the coll. longhand notes (a binding of poems), 1999.
© Re-worked 2016 : T.Wignesan – Paris, August 2, 1997
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2016
Post Comments
Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.
Please
Login
to post a comment