REASON'S HIDDEN RHYME
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Riding the rims of parallel steel
a hundred miles south, silver arrows
on an infinite trajectory fall beyond
the narrow horizon of my eyes
trained on time table clocks
toward sums and squares
columns and angles
precise in black and white
a geometry of this and that
formulae for wants and things
shifting plates along a barren faultline
careening toward the irrelevant
fragile ground gives way
plunging shattered forms and structures
into squandered space
hollow of desire
Unburdened, in a spring of themes
trickles slowly then flows from the periphery
into streams of words shaped by sound
and phosphorescent colors
uncontained by time, lingering
for the music of a lover's voice
contours of pleasure fill
pause and phrases in my mind
I dip my fingertips
to sketch the spectrum
of seasons within, once lost,
roused again in possibility
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May '99