VOICES ON THE INSIDE

Leaden feet
Heavy by life
Traverse what becomes
Could become
The mundane
If by choice
In the belly of the swelled soul
Leakage
Ekes to the earth
Whatever it breaks free
Becoming
The shifting winds of emotion
Uncontain
Litter and remnant
Spread like icing
Slick and inviting
And leaves imprinting love
On precipice where they edge
Teetering
Untangling the pale ailing green
And mending
Gnawing things in the balance
Nirvana freeing all that enslaves
Somersaulting beats
Reversing gail with the wide open palm
Of an out-sytetched hand
Risen high to the heavens
Terse words bitten to the nail quick
Washing over rich swells
River swoosh and calm
What a wonderful world swoons
Swirling current of a time past
Taken down stream
Evaporating into ????ne mist
Eviscerating persona oppresses interject
Telltale nakedness
Unbirthed breasts
Grown wiser
In mothering
Grace
Up from the servants’ well
Lay sweet
Sage at the landing
Grok to the chasm
Rooting robustly
Footing

Meadow flourish measure
Maturation its rainfall
Legacy strung like ornament
Tilts the inherited smirk
Funny unwarn faces
Press to frozen glass
Fragility between them
Winter window pane’s smudge
Unmitten fingertips cling to
Almost frozen bitten
The snow temperate
Now melting
Bittersweet the reflective seasons
Entomb
Not to be revived
Of what is lived
Or wished to be lived
And are not
Wrap tightly around one’s own
Never minds and shadows fading in the distance
Quivering heart
Half beating the underside
Tethering loss
The pump itself
Nearly breaking
Echoes avalanche and unbury
Survivable erstwhile
Humor wrangling the laughter
Before it’s forgotten or goes under
Submerges beneath the murk
Visceral expressions reaping the main artery
Sacred lore evensong
Flow in the tunneling
Woe-be-gone and will-o-the-wisp
Nots
Sleep in the vistas
Silent vesper
Sunrise awakens
Still the surreal
Lighthearted lamb
Leaden feet
Heavy by life
Heavier because of living