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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

This route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.

Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.

When I dreamed about flying,
it was as a skill
I needed to regain.

Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Curled up in bed,
I'm young
in the old way.

Now light sits in the chairs

Today could be described as a retired man humming tunelessly to himself.

I know you by your willingness.

The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

As a child,
I was abandoned
in a story
made of trees.
Here's the small
gasp
of this clearing
come "upon" "again

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

But here I hold your dream in my poem.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here.

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love.

The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

The fear
that all this
will end.
The fear
that it won't.

The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.