dear you in there,

poetic knowledge taking place in silence?

bright-faced deities, 26 letters experientially to infinity

& written life, colored inks, illusory shadows

real evolution where people are reading you

& yr life circulates in us, poet’s vocation

continuity of life red means “russet in the trees”

hear you down to phonemes means “love in feral heat”

of moment, stars, of paradox means “non-teleological”

composite body on pyre, oneiric zones now only

urgency of chant, lateral thinking, prophecy

alchemical torrents in bardo wind tunnel

balance of anything is love,

where form is emptiness is “heart sutra” is poem of pieces

your humble “membrane singer” writing this down

concordant experience not subject to form,

but de-colonizing mind in the seismic channel

where else we could ever be your eyes have blazed.

— 12/25/2022