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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2000-03-17 12:12 PM

perfume, talk of jadescapes,
stars alight anew.
she was easy to please me absurdly
with feelings unrestrained.

love's sweatshirt smelled like holes,
even as she spoke of concrete iron.
after the last two threads broke apart,
i knew no mountain view.

little prayerbook she sent in the mail
to get me by on through.
the glossy picture leaves and poems
blinded with their hues.

every waterfall had a rainbow,
every boat a settled reflection,
every house a new england tree,
every snowscene an unlived blankness.

stapled sermon of votive candles
dripping forever frozen wax.
she wrote inside the front page,
but instead i read the back.

some mississippi mission's manipulation.
beauty through human composition.
not the actuality of god.
safe tidy faith: no dark nets allowed.

(c) 2000 Mike Chmielecki

Aimster
Member Elite

since 2000-02-19

Posts 4297
Charlotte, NC

1 posted 2000-03-17 12:35 PM

~mike,

wow!! this was intense! i am going to read this again tomorrow when I am not quite as tired..but from what I got out of this, this is great!!!

Amy

Take care.

~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~

devina
Member Elite

since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

2 posted 2000-03-17 12:38 PM

This was more than intense Mike...breathtaking is more like it...I do like your style m'friend!!

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

3 posted 2000-03-17 01:02 AM

Hi, Amy.
Glad you enjoyed. Yeah, some things are better read when you're not tired; but I wouldn't know, seeing as I'm already yawning.

Devina,
Thanks for your compliment. I'm definitely smilin'.

Mike

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2000-03-17 01:05 AM

Mike, you are just blowing me away tonight.
Glad you're back.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

5 posted 2000-03-18 02:45 AM

Thanks again, 's'. Not bad for me only taking a week and a half to write anything again. Oh well. I'll slowly coming up for air.

Mike

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2000-03-18 02:51 AM

A squirrel underwater? Now that's a b_squirrel "visual"--e- mail me, will ya?

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