The Flickering

fragile in languid slant and sheen
morse code rain flashes arc-weld notes
wispy on curtains and curtains vehicles beam
heavenly-mind signals on-off-on-on..
as cat eyes illume the lights with passive gaze
azure-white parallel runways slow-shutter nazca lines
ribbon rhinestones reflective elide
elide the lode of night tonight..

banks of shadows as seaweed shorn
shallow emerald vales sway with whirling wash
undulate over waves of concrete miles
rivulets twinkle diaphanous jet
autumn leaves collect themselves under a bridge
whistling refuse collectors duet with brushes percussive.. .

and her smile and her smile
how her smile could lift the brooding mountain
presence so rare
disarming cool artifice..

passing strangers us
tilting blessing one another
aum i am lifted imbibed
stunned vaulted raw into the meditative penumbra
almost like all this is a living poem
drenched in the liminal present
the pristine velvet pulse
the intangibles attune
cathedral coalescence
heart-space cymatics..

i thank you so
the unlaced graceful gentlest tangle
such peripheries dazzle in contrast
gossamer-tender seconds glacial
their precious delicate flicker
thrumming heart syncopating
the rudderless puressence filter
no machinations
transmutation
levitating the vacuum in silken-wonder caress..
i strikethrough nevertheless..
nevertheless..

single espresso in my hand
on the train i watch the cars in drizzle swoosh by
rolling shark eyes doe bathes the felines fancy
while other landing lights charm my starship spinning
utterly disarmed of discerned plans
in the here beyond now and now
i am almost i am..