Amidst the Multitudes

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crowds, isolation, loneliness, poetry, strangers, theresultsoflowbloodsugar

loneliness amplified

by the proximity and

quantity of strangers;

strangely reflected

back by unwelcoming

pupils, bouncing off

skeletons couched

in skins that don’t

hug, shake hands,

hi-five…

not lives of quiet

desperation, more

grazing in parallel

upon denuded

spiritual past chores

 

Metrical Isotopes

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bonds, chemistry, form, freeverse, language, life's building blocks, meter, poetry, wordplay

Poetic forms and meter..
like naming chemical

compounds…
Elusive. Foreign. A grid
placed over organic
living tissue.
Life’s building blocks
architecturally pigeonholed.
I screaming sonnets
whose bonds

-ous or -ide into
explosive reactions,
self-immolatingly aglow.
Ionic covalence joined
by pentametrical substructures.
Microscopic spaces

between Language–

weak forces barely
supporting a comma’s weight.

The unavoidable constant
of an eternal void.

Untitled

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disillusionment, poetry, raisins

He wanted to dream in fugues,

an escape velocity from loneliness

set to a motion-picture-worthy soundtrack.

Do those who can’t act, direct?

Take 27!, snap of the clapperboard

but still synchronization slipped

away, fleeting, morphing.

His lines were perfect,

or, just as written,

but his role a complete

cliche, yet another grape

on the vine, destined

for raisinhood.