One Life

I glimpse the ship with one life listing

transcendent; reflective 

setting course on the water’s end

oblation locking onto a feverish line

that life I did not know, 

How it tangles the sails in drafts of laughter 

The wind a summer’s sudden sword..

The saber is the morning counter

The train's final call over dawn and port

In my wish your ringlets are spun in this illusion

they blush, as words lift into overture,

so soft as death’s lowest ember trembles in midair

No end, no burden or sunset.

expecting good seasons to fly

we glimpse the feather that falls to earth, 

twirling in circlets entwined

Alive, our course repeats this fever,

Ignites the curse to grow limbs, grow teeth and lose to the burden of the flashing aperture 

One day a name must rise over our horizon like a Klieg lamp through the concert of our minds, and we will crawl, pushing all tears away.

Words align as pearls in the oyster's wish

An infliction over the surface we delight, 

You infuse your lips against a rusting heaven, 

I suffer it a man compelled, 

slipping through a bottle into your glass

But we confuse the night's ministry into black ash,

Magi into flight, bodies melting into darkness 

then, with a single nudge, relentlessly

we burn on the lip of our tongues.

Author's Note

wip..