Gales blow down the mountains
Bringing the scent of pinecones, dry needles, and lichen
And flinging dust into the valley
That it may someday level out
And come plain
About the climb
No more.
Chinook
Epitaph for a glass
Let it fall
Watch it break
Shatter, crack and burst
Into shards tinkling their delicate music
Whilst dancing cross the stern hardness
That broke their progenitor
And granted sharp-edged freedom
To particulate into lethality.
Space
An endless circle
A flattened line
In dimensional measure
There will never be too much
And yet there is never enough
Space.
Velocity
Away
Further and farther
Where the only constant is ever-greater speed
And acknowledging or even noticing
Is madness: A break of focus.
And everything swept by without a glance
Corrodes into stasis
With its time-blemished stare.
Walls
The sturdy walls of society
Are built with lies
Baked into bricks, sized by decree or committee
When falsities no longer fit one another, the walls crumble
And the hideous unbound truth is free to uncoil
Across the barren land.
Exhaustion
It must be exhausting
Being angry at everything.
All the more reason
To deny the very possibility
Of exhaustion.
(Until it becomes irrefutable
As you die of it.)