#scbobo

[mizelaneus]

Private Drive

Private drive with its dense camellias,

a doorway of golden light that’s always

just a ways on. Dusk, across wet grass to

memory’s dilapidated house,

its rummaging ghosts. And beyond, the

tethered ship, its scintillating rudder

and low rumble. The pilot sings. Suit up.

Distant sirens, somebody down, but you,

you’re off, the city plummets to nothing,

you’re deep inside a sky full of stars.

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[luminousradar]

Close Enough

The nudibranch family two blocks away answers a mighty summons from the past, desire for love like a roof overhead, light like light from st

Close Enough

The nudibranch family two blocks away

answers a mighty summons from the past,

desire for love like a roof overhead, light like

light from stars long dead, like the afterlife

of your feelings now you know. There is

no god of creatures, only rocks and rain,

no thought of you in any mind, just static

and a random cat escaped from physics,

rolling in sunshine, close enough to joy.

[luminousradar]

Discover

In the beginning there was a small door, but escape was less attractive then than forests full of undiscovered species like yourself, you th

In the beginning there was a

small door,

but escape was

less attractive then

than forests full of

undiscovered species

like yourself, you thought.

So many things

you did not think,

things you did not hear–

monkeys for example

not so unlike you

screamed alarm

from tree to tree–

you thought such dangers

did not apply to you,

lounging on beaches

where the sea

drags pebbles out and in

and out, your mind

entangled with

the flow of things.

Back at your campsite

a god disguised

as some random someone

passing through

prepared a dish you tasted

only once

and now forever

long to taste again.

Why were you so busy dodging luck?

It took such work

to find the wrong places

and love the wrong men,

the ones you crowded,

the ones who crowded you,

the one you found

to leave you

to your solitude,

the one you found to leave.

Free of all encumbrance,

now you know

nothing burdens

like the want of love.

[luminousradar]

Late in the Day

Late in the day we expected the day to have no history and thus unhinged we’d find true home someplace we’d never been— there it was: clear

Late in the day we expected the day

to have no history and thus unhinged

we’d find true home someplace we’d never been—

there it was: clear shining space

in which we had new being because our

being had been excised till suddenly old

pain recalled old injury and we sensed

the phantom tail we dragged through those old worlds

we thought ourselves free of, then even the

memory of it encumbered all direction

till we faced forward only by default, how

we still felt the way we’d roared the burden

of it, the suffering of the finer selves

we’d finally become, when what we’d left

was all that was left, meager water holes,

dense foliage, volcanoes, steely sky.

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[mizelaneus]

We are writing just to ask

We are writing just to ask

what star you travel round & if

your interstellar probe can meet

our probe in the in-between

or soon transmit some memory

of love or image of your face.

[luminousradar]

Tending the Body

Tending the body of the beloved, you see something mortal there that love cannot cure, as if you cannot think the body tended still has arms

Tending the body of the beloved, you see

something mortal there that love cannot cure,

as if you cannot think the body tended still

has arms to hold you, as if already

this one you love belongs to some other

estate where we only ever go alone,

as if pausing at the edge of a wood

one says let’s turn back now and the other

says I think I’ll linger here awhile,

go on without me, I’ll catch up.

[mizelaneus]

Handful of long day

Mockingbird without a mate

Let the ghost in now

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[luminousradar]

Tether

How do I know where you go when you do not

arrive? Where you are my dark cave or in that

pocket where you dream, can I make a freedom?

Can I escape detection the other side

of this wall I’ve secured for you? See how the

hostage sleeps, never to dream of letting go

this tether though the door’s unlocked all night.

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