spark ignite the disobedient mind
burn away the conscience grown fat and fallow
burn away the prodigies clearing their throats in dusty books
burn away the critics as they skulk from the arena floor
&
burn away the writer
that bygone bundle of prestige/pettiness/fear
to summon
in the panic heat of language a most savage poetry
into its steely fire fed a labor of sentences
to goad the hunger or starve of fullness
amidst the crackle-hum of creation
a fuse lit
no amount of unthinking can snuff out
where
once a
circle
now
a spiral
leading where
I know not yet
vertigo’d by nerves
the architecture
of my words
provide the only
perspective
keep hidden
the aborted works
and the finishing
school of
slush piles
stammer
the rigmarole
of some loose end
and set ablaze
the whole edifice
to leave but
page and ash
I will be patient and recognize the text when it appears
postpone the crisis
and begin anew
incarnate
the smiling father on some kind lawn
sunlit squinting
cliched heart and all
burn away the conscience grown fat and fallow
burn away the prodigies clearing their throats in dusty books
burn away the critics as they skulk from the arena floor
&
burn away the writer
that bygone bundle of prestige/pettiness/fear
to summon
in the panic heat of language a most savage poetry
into its steely fire fed a labor of sentences
to goad the hunger or starve of fullness
amidst the crackle-hum of creation
a fuse lit
no amount of unthinking can snuff out
where
once a
circle
now
a spiral
leading where
I know not yet
vertigo’d by nerves
the architecture
of my words
provide the only
perspective
keep hidden
the aborted works
and the finishing
school of
slush piles
stammer
the rigmarole
of some loose end
and set ablaze
the whole edifice
to leave but
page and ash
I will be patient and recognize the text when it appears
postpone the crisis
and begin anew
incarnate
the smiling father on some kind lawn
sunlit squinting
cliched heart and all
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