Doubt (should one but swallow a mumbling bee)
Worming words among ruinous runs of a burbling,
stirred, disturbed, intuitive gut,
this pickled affliction poetry’s pruned from:
shit that, suffice it to say,
spurs on a bonsai—
peels from a withering rose
such sumptuous blush among silken appendages, maybe
prosthetic,
prophetic,
perfected, even
pluperfect before but pregnant terms
instilled in them stenting symbols,
flickering fumes reborn upon redolent pages pinched
with scraggly sigils,
with svelte and nettling noises
cramping pencraft
combs from a piling mind,
a throat imploding,
sketchy ideals dredged
from a smirking scarp or a swan’s comportment,
freckling fox kits craned to a godling’s glaring genius,
gibbering goldenrod, strident cries of inviolate bluegrass,
rhytons reprising plump or departing moons—
just as a far and conceited star unfurls
in runs of neurotic and chronic decay
these glorying oils sloshed across
bristling barks and leaves illumining—
all of immensity tunes to a finicky feeling
begging the bees to bumble,
trees to weep,
glib flies in glorying promenade
dance as damsels damnably freed
or untethered from tortuous towers,
tabards cathected,
clothes encoded in cumbrous tones,
the brilliant chitter of blithering bilboes
(stirred to an awkward itch or an achy sonnet,
surly song, a smarting tonsil teased to a tercet,
a tiercel’s tirade picking at ponderous scarps or stones,
a—
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Incredible!!!! I think this line stands out…
Like you must be who you are as everything is as it is, and also I just love “glorying oils”
“just as a far and conceited star unfurls
in runs of neurotic and chronic decay
these glorying oils sloshed across
bristling barks and leaves illumining”
The depths of your experience, are as always, staggering.
I also sense a lot of sincere humility, the rattling of oversensory experience, but also the confident footing. This is like it’s own kind of emotional music. Not modern music, more like Schubert or Mozart (of course). What you do is pretty indescribable, but delicious as it washes over you.