ILLUSTRATIONS
dreams
&
reality
clear sounded
yet
a
fantastical situation
sans
sense
&
literalness
to make it
believable
an involved
setting
the instantly
recognisable
envisaged
unaware
lie
the forlorn
in
confused
forces
of loneliness
&immortality
deference
& gentility
a
memoir
survives
the experience
conceived
in
parallel
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Literalness Of The Prairie
Those that cannot remember the past -
are often run over by it for nothing lasts.
The truck may
Be driven
By a unicorn.
Even ignorance
on some day will lapses.
There is always a dead Greek philosopher
to tell you the river
you soak your feet in
is always different.
As a honey badger
Finds His way
Inside The refrigerator
Where you let
Your images cool.
Link sausage chants within the pan
The lines of kings
The dream
Was sleek
A machine
That spilled
Poems
On the mercats
Below in the footnotes
Reconstruct the lines
& scurry like the edge
of self-fulfilling prophecies.
Just storms of mercy forms
damp hyphens
& ampersands
combine the trouble couplets
And beat of stanzas over Kansas
& Find their way back-
From the literalness of the prairie
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