Amorous
Passion’s roar
Arborous
Tarzan’s door
Curious
Probing more.
Luxurious
Plush galore
Ominous
Gloomy gore
Belarus
Boxer born
Bilious
Anger pour
Furious,
Angry core
Usurious
Using bore.
Pluribus
Think as one.
Unanimous
Agreed…
“NO MORE!”
I linger beyond
the rigid dormitories
where wise, winter diplomats
speculate over my weaknesses
and vernal rites
(as if I have no rights).
Still I can hear the arguments
staged as soliloquies
by ancient wooden tongues
and even though I bow,
a humble green sprig,
a burden on their branch,
I cannot translate the chatter
of knotted knuckles
and settling sap.
I know their eyes eavesdrop
upon my Sinai
and bear witness to my streams
of misunderstood whispers
as if they might interpret my lexis
of suspired scrolls;
those vanishing ellipses
that curl from lips and condense
into youth's defiant veil
that can’t be rent by reasoning
I’ve never experienced.
If I close my eyes will I find meaning
in this cusp of Spring,
in their incessant dialogue
of dried arms signing
strange arborous proverbs?
Dormant,
dried arms signing
strange arborous proverbs.
The sap from knotted knuckles bleeds
wisdom.
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