Landscape Abstracted II
baked CLAY hills
smudged breasts heave HEAVE
PERmutation sky
collapses
upon itSELF
one needs light folded in/out at random angles
clothes stand exposed as elements of chance
shadows are clouds
clouds are colors redistributed
SUBMARINES interlace verdant. like GIANT ANTS
here aLAKE here a DETOUR
make yourSELF useful strum a MADRIGAL
as far as the EYE can see
while the other EYE looks the other way
keeps HERself busy dotting i’s iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
a hymn a psalm a drunkard’s roundelay
( pause ) ( pause ) ( pause )
sunburst,
crepuscular hydrangea
cannot distinguish day from night
two blades of grass cannot be torn asunder
even when opposite kimonos are worn
iron horse travels east and west in chorus
passengers carry forged passports thrilled
port of call, terminal
next stop China
ever a respite CHIMERA breathing fresh air - ahhhhhh
a Shangri - ahhhhhh
faceless minion redoubling effort forges ahead
$$$$ pulled up by roots buried deep
here a lovesick FRAGRANCE here a stranded LYRIC
has found you/her out of sorts
burbling as it just so happens
A Horse of a Different Color
You know you know a rose as written with four letters r-o-s-e variations thereof grouped together as the word rose in forming a sign that indicates the rose as defined by the English language, variations thereof – as every language has its rose translatable into every other language world past present. Unless in other parts past present the inhabitants never met a rose they never saw for those inhabitants simply wherever they live or lived then or may have not a rose a rose of known or unknown origin is not a rose is not a rose at all. Unless those same inhabitants of which I speak happen or may have happened to have rose s for eyes in which case rose s for them would be eyes not rose s. Rose s that are eyes in varying colors as pink orange white rose s (etc) are understood by other inhabitants who comprehend rose s as rose s are comprehended in whatever color stock preferred.
I take now into consideration the early rose early humankind before sapiens of similar kind skilled enough regarding the rose communication through various technologies, variations thereof. I would think the rose for those early humans did not exist perhaps even if it did. I now continue taking into account the future rose. In case then as then in that case for no one can say in any case how the future rose will blossom slash develop a rose might then be spoken then be written, variations thereof — a horse is a horse is a horse is a well you should get it by now a horse, variations thereof. I hope that I have made myself clear on this rose business. Perhaps clear enough for you to perceive (or at the least see) once and for all its nature from a different view. I have been succinct as I can under circumstances not altogether different from our previous correspondence, re: the broken dishes you sent along with those delizioso rose petals.
There There
You must be mistaken. I went there. I hazard to say that there was something there. You must go back dear and see it for yourself there. There was something there. I am convinced there was a there there. You must have been in some other place other than there when you were there you who were there but there was no there there. I was there. It was there. It was there where there was a there. I am certain. I saw water. I saw land. I came upon it and laid there. Wonderful over there where there I laid. I felt sounds lifting me off the ground. I swear my dear to there I was. It is most likely there there still. We must go there dear together. You and I withAlicecertainly. All three together we will go there there where there is. Soon soon before flowers fade that were fading before I sent you both not there fading before flowers do fade and did.
Michael Brandonisio’s written and visual works have appeared in various online literary venues, most recently in Otoliths, Danse Macabre and The Planet Formerly Known as Earth.
