Resident I Whatever Comes Next
Resident I
Searching for signs, singing songs by the seasides. On my knees, seeking guides so seldom testified. Besieged by my pride, it's hard to leave well enough right. My pleas etch the sky, as my knees pass their prime. Resident I, holding cards tight to clavicles. Impractical grind seen through tactical sights. Hesitance primed, take my time, keep it natural. There's no where to fly-- home in ten seconds time. As the beast stirs, the streams pontificate-- thaw and refreeze on iron sides. And the leeward, a long lost everything, falls free, crashing through the ice. As the seas turn in seasoned light inspiration's design resuscitates as we breathe in the sea's soft light. Spin the top. Ride the ride. I hope your die lie on good sides. As the candle drips, time re-rips, then re-aligns. Taking flame into frame, I restrain out the bad names. Taking hand in each scribe, to let a man testify. So it stops. So it goes. Frost on long-lost mementos. I thaw through the night, take my time, then take flight. Abuse, and excuses, are both rebukes of the same truth. I tear up my guise beneath pride's sands I dive As we free-fall, my pulse calls, quickening. Like an eagle retrieving his prize. While the weevil has lost his life today... for to feed, that's a need and right. And I plead with such needs each night. As I seek such a sweet soft lettening. Still I sprint, when the speed feels right. ... Up in the crow's nest it's so hard to focus. No guard up - no bardic prose This is all I'll ever know Love, out of focus, can make hope feel so hopeless. Bleached black. Burned hot-white as gold. Each fact deemed unnatural Well that's - halitosis. Back in corners it, unscoped, sits. The plaque cast to save your soul but now it's grown out of control. But that's how it goes. It was a blast burning, but the black smoke gets trapped lonely in the last hole left to wonder why I'm always last to come down off the wall |
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2. Shiver Honed 02:52 3. Little Idle Inkworm 02:22 4. Mighty Ho 02:28 5. Time Travel 01:56 6. Forsythe Two-Step 03:30 7. Be (What Was Her Name?) 04:35 8. Whatever Comes Next 03:27 9. Hectic in Fourty-Four 00:44 10. Sure Sight 02:56 11. Fine Mind Weeped 01:29 12. Cypress 05:16 13. Extraneous 01:47 14. Goodness Gracious (Rooster Dance) 03:00 15. Resident I 04:39 16. Just As Well 02:48 17. Yessir 03:00 18. Sassafras 03:07 |
© James Robert Clark (2014)