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Failing

that epicenter

	where the tectonic plates
overlap
 
     a breaking point

         before the shift

     walking the edge

	that wedge between
                     dormant and motion t
	
	my essence the sea floor spreading

	 before the thunder.

  
         words have power
  
     when they break our backs

	with the arduous labour

        of  function 

 they are otherwise
 
	 vapid 
           

  so I stand on the precipice

	fingering the corrugations of furrowed wounds

	    intuiting the solid you are trying to touch down on

	
   wrestling my own shadows

         the ache of my constant dangerous want

	still echoing in the sound

	                of your heartbeat
     
	in the thick of trying to satiate so many

		and failing..

	©  Katherine Wyatt

Copyright © Katherine Wyatt | Year Posted 2011



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Cool Blue

what you do not feed will burn itself out

disconnect ....

from malcontent

  ...cool removal

just bouncing light off

like a cool moon.

 gasoline

...searching  for a match

   step back  .

 

what you do not feed will burn itself out

the sacred, exquisite paradox

too busy making love to unworthiness

 tangled inside your own entrails

mis-reading the message of cowrie shells

 

what you do not feed will burn itself out

moving back into the abstract

fodder for the storm

thunder rolls

birthing rage

  ...caged

so I move into blue

 ....lighter shades of cool

..waters to douse the fires

the ire swells and flows

 ..vacuums of light and Indigo

that cool place  

 ..of fierce grace

 

(c) Katherine Wyatt 2010

Copyright © Katherine Wyatt | Year Posted 2010

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Indigo Into Dark

Indigo child came crashing on your dark

perspectives could not have coalesced

less than my essence and your soul,agony

the echo, hollow, whispers pain in solace

 

Your eyes so tight and small spoke of emptiness

and angst etched in the wrinkles of your face

the end of us was in the pain of our first glance

long suffering and stoic we mingle and remain

 

aesthetics did not exist for you and I

as countenance from essence does arise

for yours was never pleasing to my eyes

your silence screams that I was not your dream

 

 

your eyes small and hollow filled with pain

first glance was all it took to see our end

 

 

(c)  Katherine Wyatt 2010

Copyright © Katherine Wyatt | Year Posted 2010

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Maverick

My Indigo crashed upon your dark

 I acquiesced

d

  r

   i

    p

      p

        i

         n

           g

 

              essence

         ...into yours

 

 

erudite and savage

  owl eyes

              with furtive glances

 

the maverick

       not one soul could resist

 

with a predilection

      to hold a room captive

  upon your entrance

 

always serendipitous 

       your synchronicity

 

 

     a perfect harmony

         you who were always

 

                   ........superfluous with sincere charm

 

 

you lived exactly how you pleased

and almost got away with it

 

 

then it all  went dark 

   ....far too soon....

 

  the cosmos

   ...less iridescent

 

       in your

       ... (individuated) absence


(c) Katherine Wyatt  2010

Copyright © Katherine Wyatt | Year Posted 2010

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Into Theveil

The season of their loving

    hung in the warm glow

enjoined by streams

       under

canopies of green

 

he extended his hand

        asking her into eternity

not wanting to lose her

    to reveries  

and fading memories

 

he knew that his time had come

     he promised her

there was nothing to fear

he beckoned

 

as flesh and bone

  were shed  like snake skin

thinning

..the veil peeled away

 

 

....karma had not finished with her

 

lifting her hand in the dark

she felt his fingers slipping away

  what she could not yet do..

he was now on the other side

  ...she chose not to follow him through

 

dark mists round blue archways closed

  ...another world briefly exposed

   she glimpsed his face one last time

pleading for her to follow

  ...to leave behind space and time

 

reveries hold his face

she is a heartbeat with half a soul

 ...she let him go

    ....soon to follow

 life was not hers to give

  .....but after all

time is only relative

 

(c) Katherine Wyatt?

Copyright © Katherine Wyatt | Year Posted 2010




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