Now hear the the silence, the echoing ways where wends the wind over the holy mountain wholly sheer and ragged, barring no feeble heaven, but rather puncturing the skin of night to greet encumbered stars. If beneath these ways of the webbed universe’s twirling, if over the molten core on which we prance, if by rainway and leafpath and snowscuttle we may follow, then follow oh follow. May the musk of sky and the riot of perishing leaves, may that ineffable scent conjuring a hundred days of autumnal perfection, may all the inexpressible beauty of the world puncture the dull routine, annihilate the false conundrums and silly considerations concealing crystalline depths of life.
While autumn sidles on impending deadlines hiss in the slippery byways of crammed days and insensate nights sounding silence. But beyond my cage trees yawn in fog and breezes whistle by the jagged teeth of leaves. No sight of sky sneaks through the canopy of those vein-dead frenzies, crisp and soon-falling. Blood-burrows in the sky, distant prisoned hills. Licked rock resides beneath swift running of water’s caress. Sparking light flicks in the meeting of moisture and air. Soft breezes. Soft grass.
Now hear the the silence, the echoing ways where wends the wind over the holy mountain wholly sheer and ragged, barring no feeble heaven, but rather puncturing the skin of night to greet encumbered stars. If beneath these ways of the webbed universe’s twirling, if over the molten core on which we prance, if by rainway and leafpath and snowscuttle we may follow, then follow oh follow. May the musk of sky and the riot of perishing leaves, may that ineffable scent conjuring a hundred days of autumnal perfection, may all the inexpressible beauty of the world puncture the dull routine, annihilate the false conundrums and silly considerations concealing crystalline depths of life.
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"It were a goodly storie, to declare,
By what straunge accident faire Chrysogone Conceived these infants, and how them she bare..." - Edmund Spenser from The Third Booke of The Faerie Queene here sit here bathe in pooling currents of sunlight drenching my front step from which, if off I step, I shall be brushed by the overgrown shrub tickling wayward passersby and if off this step I should take my way take endless more if I should say, wherever I may roam… still this October day shall be my home this sun-fucked dappled day wings shed the skin of night
feathers cast off shredded light sparrow, won’t you stay? stay sparrow stay, stay here where ceiling punctures sky where grass greets concrete slices where starbeams lick lengthening stases stay sparrow leave me not where bulbs burn sharply leave me not where screens beam grimly draw me through the skin of night dress me in soft rags of light stay sparrow stay |
AuthorI'm a twenty-something student of English literature and philosophy. When not occupied with one too many essays, I (try to) write fiction and poetry. I adore Virginia Woolf, am permanently inhabited by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and feast on the works of Donne and Milton. I am, however, most entranced by the works of the great Romantic poets: Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Keats. Immersed in such an illustrious tradition, I wonder each time I write how words I string together could say anything that has not been said better before. Still the inexorable drive to partake in this vast universe of word sends me scrawling, typing, tossing fragile scribbles into a plenitudinous void. And when not reading or writing, I may be found playing piano or taking a long walk. A final word: Beethoven renders all words void. Archives
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