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Flames

how shall the riddle of thinking be solved and
how the one of the flame?

words with the flavour of scars and roses resounding
in the cellar of life where the hole in the heart
is as big as a truck and dawn
lies shred and mangled

time and expired existence dread
a new reality reasoned
by a chance erased before being read

the sun rises while you
are sleeping in a shining reticle
not knowing with whom you are or
what has happened; forever scarred
by the past that lingers
living nearby yet very far

where will you be
servant of your own experiments or
dj of thought whose mixer is your scientific tool
to design a bizarre universe of sound?

you are roaming around
restlessly abhoring vagueness while you breathe
the wind in the rhythm of time

a caged bird is singing so sweetly
to scorch your soul as you kiss whom you
hold now close and dear

like an asteroid lighting on a trajectory

you smile to understand

the bird in the cage is trilling in minor chord
while the torch is gently rotating;
you open the window to dreams and stars
and the wine you drink is as red as your heart
and the night is crying

and taut as a string you cannot rest and
have to send out sparks forever

i am nothing, you say, and your laboratory
is vibrating and flickering just like your soul;
it is wailing and howling when you touch the wires
of mind or fiddle on your veins or blow the
yearning trumpet of love;

i am nothing, you say, and are sure
about it, because
everything else is uncertain

life is a propitious prophylaxis of death
a blissfull illusion
a beautiful rose

witchcraft of mind
firmament for the heart

detoxification

is the truth true? your hand your own?

sixty-two ways to support the head while thinking;
your thoughts flare up like flames, logical and indistinct,
precise and confusing;

your formulas, your slogans that you
hang up on pegs to set on fire later on
disintegrate into dust before being tamed

criticizing the human as a hypocritical creature
you are loath to the process of thinking
yet cannot stop; you ride on words while
you have already dismissed the written idea

nothing is certain, nothing is sure

everything is flaring up and fading away
and nothing but the attempt to understand
with heart is burning in the night of shadows

how shall the riddle of thinking be solved and
how the one of the flame?

your hands are baskets to be filled with pearls
your thoughts birds that fly gracefully through the night

your hair is an abstract of dreams
and i long to touch it

as dawn dust comes on quieter than silence
and light slowly creeps
filling space

how long since we got drunk on wind and wine?

i am not sure what it means to roll
in the moving motion of time and light

i am not sure what it means
to dine on slices of september moon or if
the herbs of tomorrow can spice
yesterday's dreams

i shall drink cinnamon and stars while
the world is asleep
the heart a flame and blue
with wonder

i shall caress the sand that is left
between toes and teeth and behind eyelids

and cry pearls and flare up laughing

i am soaked with light and the gold of a thousand
suns and a thousand ways to love the burning of the sky

i am everything
i am nothing
i am the paradox that is eternity in the moment's universe

i am writing down words
so the wind can hear me

and call them across

nightfishing
among the plankton of my vocabulary
phosphorizing in the dark

to listen for sweetness

a million surfaces without a tongue

lineament of dreams



Alps

no hunger in the air
just silence

the moon spills
a delirium of ancient motions
onto the earth's terrain of somber
flanks
flooding sacred snow
and scarred rock

the sky does not know pain
spans the mass of stone
triangular peaks
abstract by beauty

in the caves of your heart
silence whispers
soaring towards one ecstatic hosanna
one shrill
sustained sonic splendor

your dehumanized cry
louder
than the echo of time



Bones

wrapped up so rapidly
between having and having not
that bone won't break while i sing
with a choir of black breathless dogs
sucking juice out of words
to come again pore by pore
to satisfy hunger

horror absurd to censor this food
like jellyfish in the cup of my mouth

the private tongue
glowing stranger
corona in the buds

the wolf of the west eats and eats


Circles

like clouds we float
through births and deaths

the path of night
the path of light

we walk them dreaming

the only thing we have in mind
even when we wake:

the murmur of rain
we heard when we
were in bed at night


You, Nomad

you, painter of rivers
of old dreams &
shadows of wanting
your brush is dripping  & you're
drinking from the glass of
antigravity and wandering

sipping timelessness, blue
and awakened in drunken drownings
you! the traveller of lighted dreams
hungry & filled with hidden galaxies
speak divine, goldshowery shaken
tumbling through time, listening
to sandstorms in your secret dahab
that blow scatterred paradises upon your
honeymoon sandwich, you! jiggling in your retsina
and cookiecore, smiling
inside sugarshores of leaving & longing

you, juggler of crowns,
windside dancing on desert trains
speak the dark whispers of broken sunshine
and moonlit questions that linger in between aeons and souls
you meander through bloodstreams and crystalline poems
fingers slipping into pockets where
conglobate kisses, stored & dried, are sleeping
and you are left with only your fish and
captured titanics, your jellyfishsongs
and swaying, you, the stone filled
with the echoes of a million lightyears
filled with seething dewdrops and
the rage of eons, you, tumbling through
the hiccups of freedom with burning eyelashes
and smiling snakes crawling through your bloodstream
you, the hungry star swallowing eternities
your sore throat softer
than the inside of your skin, you! you!
you hear the sift of time, the murmur
of the last grain of sand
trickling down your spine
you eat the ripened word
the sheer aureole of the dance...in your
deep pockets the suns are alive
living light between your curled fingertips

you, nomad, wherever you are,
the desert that shifts inside you,
is with you, your footsteps
backtracking the drops
of light dripping from your lips
as you milk darkness out of flames

as if a spark, dreamed by you,
could ripen in cold and light
a blaze of flaming flames


This Yell is Mine


all nights, all nights i read
the scars on the inner wall
of your absence

all night long i lie
in the hunger that became
a bed for me
like a scarab devoured
in the sphere of its own dung

so many words
like pebbles thrown idly
against the pure black background
of time; the lava inside
bubbling restlessly like an
idea of something
lost within

i am wild open

dawn folds into me

this yell of mine

rocks shudder

poetry III
Flames
Alps
Bones
Circles
You, Nomad
This Yell is Mine

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