The Splendor of Smoke Clearing

desiring to set the record straight
playing out or disenfranchising
cold skeletons, the brim of intuition
the seeking of admonishment
to conciliatory remains
stretches my will to crescent

rummaging through the revisions
I find emulsified ruin
I no longer refract my emotions
over a broken vestal vestige
let memory mystify the inconsolable
as they have admitted defeat
against the battle of themselves
as pointed as contradiction would deny

embellished wants and deposits grander than grandeur
the captains of auditions spin pencils into cartoon
the fragment glad hands infinity’s chapter
a bargain of suffrage
whispering in silence of evening finality and pirouette
or some blade that bounds worm to salt
that grief in repose miters the soul against its will

the penalty is paid by anyone who loves
that urn becomes a cavern
a split piece marginalized and indiscrete
a thick ennui of betraying alibi
as false as once true, as mocking as once honorable
stolen from the lamb, traded for affirmation
a solitary incarceration rests in weight
as concealment ravages what was left to pride

to tenant that escape one must be wiser than the will
braver than the blade, coarser than the sand
enabled verses the abominable
greater than the gods

who would be so wise to adhere to folly
who cannot counter the price to pay
variables that last out each originality
contrasts the splendor of smoke clearing
to add thesis that most of the time
the dead cannot rise

no more to the mischievous hamlet for penance
or redemption for ill disguised spite
to lay scorn or contrive hysterical homage
an intangible intrinsic motif cancels
a barter to match a fallacy
this nature remains untouched, these fields unplowed
waiting to propagate grace
as the last summer of youth harvests the spectrum
sight becomes revived


June 30, 2005


ШАМРО


excerpt from The Grey Fields revisited

© 2005 private stock poetry
ranch in suspence


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