Is
Unwriting lend
Trample undered doubt
Nill grace, staggered taunt
Farthings tormented delays
Whispered daughter on hilt
Aphrodite sours the lengths rend
Milkened ponds
Battles fetch, torn and bent
To no hearthed bends hallow he crawls
Unwriting each poem
word by word
My thoughts again
—pristine
(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)
Test of Time
there's always more
trapped between quotation marks
the metal parasites resume an ancient harmony
clockwise the numbers rhyme again
eight ways to cheat infinity
one version less tonight
the little bulb above my head
blinks off and on
like crossing wires to watch the motor burn
grounded to this bookend night
at last the first condition met
I had a diary as a child
writing what I would do
instead of what I'd done
my invented future lived in a drawer
300 mostly blank pages
a young boy sits at his desk
the time between us breathing
through an ocean of decay
I don't know what to tell him
or if he's even there
decades snap apart like twigs
in a fire I cannot start
my past is filling up as
my future drains away
now I'm living in reverse
unwriting my protected life
bottom to top right to left
another ending bends towards
this parallel reminder
The older I get,
the younger
I've become.
It took me years,
to get this young.
Appearances,
may seem,
that I do age,
but younger I grow,
by the day.
For I am youth,
in its prime,
unwriting all the,
rules of time.
Continuing until,
all is erased,
and I'm brought back,
to my natural state...
A Blank Slate.
The older I get,
The younger
I've become.
Always living.
Forever young.
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