My stepchildren
—for Deisy, Angel and April
all our hands, moths of these wandering halls:
your specific absence from his dedicated dissipation
was my attempt to locate connection
and conceive an ideal of positioning
a reconstructed family, the whole
of a/our hand(s), warm toward ensuring
devotion would continue, unharmed and
a healing momentum washing over a family’s
desire to reciprocate security among what
eyes develop in the pejorative isolation of others’
misleading, myopic indiscretion; with what has formed my
aliveness is the animated piano of
ongoing rhythms and persistent
relief to have found your miracles within
the hand of my preceding absence of holding
—for Deisy, Angel and April
all our hands, moths of these wandering halls:
your specific absence from his dedicated dissipation
was my attempt to locate connection
and conceive an ideal of positioning
a reconstructed family, the whole
of a/our hand(s), warm toward ensuring
devotion would continue, unharmed and
a healing momentum washing over a family’s
desire to reciprocate security among what
eyes develop in the pejorative isolation of others’
misleading, myopic indiscretion; with what has formed my
aliveness is the animated piano of
ongoing rhythms and persistent
relief to have found your miracles within
the hand of my preceding absence of holding
***
Of none
mirage
of mirrors: finding self in the selves. I am
differe(nt)(nce)(ntia): the oval of my
physiognomy
wears contours
to the specific
size my voice
creates in volume,
density.
I haven’t an always need to communicate: the listener distends vocabulary
while attention directs path and syllable to the unconscious inheritance of
half-closed hands.
alone, or,
the organic symptom of the spiritual guidance
each foot extends toward elation, and the goal
to inhabit unbroken language and the listening
involved in frayed braiding of conversational
conformation.
***
Gout
pain’s timid initiation: purpose
the way the body holds posture in
paused deciphering of a tomorrow’s
compacted variations of limited angular
splay
and
within the serenade of screeching
sounds among the ears’ inherit dismay
the way arthritis builds its blocks
both symmetrical and quick
to analyze discomfort’s philosophical
agony of multiplying patterns’
misconfigured healings
***
sleep apnea
my sleeping breathing guided
by the braking of the busy
street’s constant affirmation
***
Totality of fatherhood’s philosophy of movement
unstill, —(this the prior function the body wrote into prose
to configure motive and exterior resources in angled
autonomy) dexterous
mobility the mind is awakened in stuttering ongoing
reactive evidences
the eventuality brings dedicated hands to build
focus and learning within an environment predicated
on ensuring devotion is the language each
individual syllable inherits as enunciated
features and tonal warmth in the
function of becoming what
the mouth wrote to the younger
version of my thinking toward
present
***
shape and silence
yet is
the not ready partition
still forming photographs
of how this introversion, this
shape
and silence of simultaneous
symmetries, the I and i of imbalance
regards amid the mind and the
body’s regrettable inevitable
splay.
silence is
the communication my tongue
married when young--
, what wrote
in vow was heard within mind
only
and through guess and recorded
histories, shape was the contouring
description of dance and illusion
needed
most upon sojourn, the corporeal
fascination with pivot to advance
view and containment in the parallel
devotion of song and audience of
adequate attention
Of none
mirage
of mirrors: finding self in the selves. I am
differe(nt)(nce)(ntia): the oval of my
physiognomy
wears contours
to the specific
size my voice
creates in volume,
density.
I haven’t an always need to communicate: the listener distends vocabulary
while attention directs path and syllable to the unconscious inheritance of
half-closed hands.
alone, or,
the organic symptom of the spiritual guidance
each foot extends toward elation, and the goal
to inhabit unbroken language and the listening
involved in frayed braiding of conversational
conformation.
***
Gout
pain’s timid initiation: purpose
the way the body holds posture in
paused deciphering of a tomorrow’s
compacted variations of limited angular
splay
and
within the serenade of screeching
sounds among the ears’ inherit dismay
the way arthritis builds its blocks
both symmetrical and quick
to analyze discomfort’s philosophical
agony of multiplying patterns’
misconfigured healings
***
sleep apnea
my sleeping breathing guided
by the braking of the busy
street’s constant affirmation
***
Totality of fatherhood’s philosophy of movement
unstill, —(this the prior function the body wrote into prose
to configure motive and exterior resources in angled
autonomy) dexterous
mobility the mind is awakened in stuttering ongoing
reactive evidences
the eventuality brings dedicated hands to build
focus and learning within an environment predicated
on ensuring devotion is the language each
individual syllable inherits as enunciated
features and tonal warmth in the
function of becoming what
the mouth wrote to the younger
version of my thinking toward
present
***
shape and silence
yet is
the not ready partition
still forming photographs
of how this introversion, this
shape
and silence of simultaneous
symmetries, the I and i of imbalance
regards amid the mind and the
body’s regrettable inevitable
splay.
silence is
the communication my tongue
married when young--
, what wrote
in vow was heard within mind
only
and through guess and recorded
histories, shape was the contouring
description of dance and illusion
needed
most upon sojourn, the corporeal
fascination with pivot to advance
view and containment in the parallel
devotion of song and audience of
adequate attention
