Friday, September 14, 2012

absent ease

"enveloped in an absence of light"
doesn't ring true, a loveless phrase described
vacantly, in all meaningful terms
absent of pith, itself defined by absence

Darkness is absolute and palpable
receding only to validate love

just as this treatise systematically
evades poesy, it does so respectfully
in order that it may flourish elsewhere

you can, if you try hard enough
separate what is legal and what is right
it is not so easy to tell the virgin
darkness from adulterated light

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