Poem Break Down Up

 

Break Down Up

 

how to think about so much heart-

slaying when to understand

is itself a wound?

 

to dig out, somehow, by

cutting deeper into the

thickness, wiser in ways,

untangled to re-tangle?

 

as if the quest was

how to grow in a soil

which, once rummaged,

lost its tenderness.

 

a white dahlia, even,

glows over a stalk descendent into

fingers grasping at rich mounds

of death.

 

and so

 

from what height on a slip-

ping pedestal of tilted

ideals could an injured

angel stretch wings?

 

fly away from gargantuan

waves of dusky moods ex-

panding over decayed cities?

 

how to angle and grapple with it,

devise and counterweigh.

how to …  

 

how to veer off

from this famishing crest

of soul-sucking gloom.

 

 

 

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9/29/25 ... changed some words ... verb tense changes... ... ... etc etc