Stacks on stacks

I could be the empress of a place like this,

queen atop a stack of pens uncocked.

 

so there’s a stigma here, obviously.

We’re drawn to a seductive essence,

what is it? What is her name?

We aren’t supposed to tell them

that we’ve met...

and she shouldn’t know who I am

but she does... I’ve come before

and I’ll darken her doorway again, I’m sure.

The bitch knows who I am.

So now we’re interacting like you haven’t been there either,

feeling the building swell up and sigh peacefully about you. 

The frame exists for us to pull beyond,

or ooze from, set in place by someone

yet we grow and crack up around sidewalk poured

by someone. it’s always someone,

the face that speaks of normalcy,

and we’re bored.

(it makes sense that audio bytes of our madness

make sense to me, stacking stacks

of clacking seconds back

on stacks of repeating

recursive stacks

of seconds)

Immobility

My car has been in the shop for three weeks. I’m back on the road again, but not unaffected.

In this absence from driving I have discovered a few things:

- driving fuels my creativity and my sense of self-worth.

- though, immobility can also be freeing.

- there is a pond out behind my office complex.

 
The pond has become a place of midday solace for me, with the added delight of unafraid ducks. These guys sat at my feet and slept while I sat on a bucket and wrote. The past few weeks have scrambled my brain - this temporary dose of surreality (and constant pondering of “normal” and if it is a thing one can actually ever “get back to”) has been very good for me in that regard - but I am left feeling disoriented and a little shell shocked. I have three or four poems that are all being written slowly and at once, in scattered pieces by accident, revealing themselves to me one important sentence at a time.

 

I need to do all of it justice, all of this life and all of the comprising faces... but when I am lifted up by the scruff of my neck, at the mercy of the universe, it is difficult to make the words come together. 

That being said. I am ecstatic to be reunited with my KIA.