Your Instantaneous Self


because you are a poet
and I love you
and I know you love words
are what to you?
images
sounds
a long canyon with brown walls
vanishing to a speck
How about a cross section of blue
would it wave
would stars come out

Or are words an interpretation of
a shadowy tempest
that follows you around
swirling with symbols
that hint at
your instantaneous self

Do you reach in
and arrange these
runes
and pressures
into an ancient sentence
that glows while dancing

Do words make that make sense?


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Your Instantaneous Self

because you are a poet
and I love you
and I know you love words
	are what to you?
		images
		rooms
		maps?
		a long canyon with brown walls
		vanishing to a speck
		a cross section of blue
			Does it wave
			is it turquoise
		did the stars just now
		twitch into existence

		Or are words an interpretation of
			a purple shadowy tempest
			always at your heels
			within which swirl the
			symbols that hint at
			your instantaneous self

				Do you reach in?
				and arrange these
					runes
					clips
					and textures
				into a sentence
					that glows of ancient script
					dancing through your vision	

	Do words make that make sense?