justwrite 18 july

there are two wheels and the waiting dates itself a calendar makes the doors open and the floors take the stairs faring better than the ceiling the sins dimming their own lights and biting each others’ tongues we are experiencing precious winds and momentary relief we have got stopped we have horns blowing we have rowing boats merrily merrily ferrying their way along ones and twos and the shortstack roundtop cablecar compound words I am missing one or two or each you took with you along lining your pockets certain lockets of moments we have shared staring comparison in the eye and blinking or winking but certainly not drinking in all that’s left just swimming in the cleft of a dimple the corner of a steeple and all the steps with the people waiting to blow horns and cut cakes fake cartwheels on the blacktop the backdrop to a thousand hours of footage we are nudging along the strong-armed caterpillars and other such constructors we are missing our mothers and each other and we are suggesting alternate ideas and the fees are quite high the sky is quite clear but fear comes in handy in strong and clear the signal unregrettably gettable I don’t like to take that tactic no one wants brackets in that color I am numbering my own limitations and taking each station in turn burning my feet before the bridge standing on dry land I am imagining the sea I am creating the scene as I’d like it to play but the dialogue is still backlogged waterclogged and uncertain bleary and blurry words hurrying along without listening to advice it’s nice to have gathered suggestions and it’s nice to learn the lessons but no mistakes are your own until you make them bake them into your own pie a cake mixmade and fading other possibilities out of the breezy august sky weeks early and unfurling thickly on a disappointed pillow another morning with early warning signs we are chewing on rhymes until the answer arrives but we are striving for our own conclusions there are too many illusions to cling to at every moment and the donut pass cannot last another round there is too much missing in the middle