Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Expiation

Control at the threshold,
Like a perfect equation

Where explanations would unravel
The cancellations,

Take us back here
To the half-light and the glare

To ponder a dubious darkness
In place of our quest

For oblivion---the daily dying
From denying the miles that must be shed

In your chrysalis
To grasp instead, bad hand.

There's a black mark, and some
Sun, occasions of wind,

And there's everything else,
Kaleidoscopic, out of reach.