rummaging thru
relevant clutter
cracking branches
a constant
threat
to stability
undermining equilibrium
I
sense a layering solidification
closer
to an older self
given to superficial immolation
for
the want soon denies
the
tenuous thickets
prolonging
a mortality
or even its harmonies
which
approach
an
ostensible fruition
locked
in the rote votives
of
non-thinking
ephemeralities
for words cannot
articulate
what the conscious mind
defines
as desires
beyond
a quickening
conception
of fiction
vague deference
to
defiance soon deters
one
clamoring
to fears
warranting
a
supplicatory aquiesence
to mention clouds
as passing metaphors
fulfilling a purview
which
limits the fortitude
of
visible portraiture
content with the preformulated
truncations leaving
somatic vestiges
to
placate
an
artifactual sibilance
a conjectural
mercy-song
palpable
parameters
still wounded
by ethereal excrescences
thinking-carnalities
ablate
quotidian fears
flesh-voids
of sophistic vehemence
revering
the unearthed
simulacrum
the
corpsal roots
or
the untouchable
auras
of tangible affliction
corridors
or
deeper abjectivity
ending
each
bout with intransigence
as
the imperturbable loci
looms
stolid and unchanging
again
as
mortality
(encroaching