Saturday, April 20, 2013

Stranger I Have Seen Before in Latitudes of Form


I feel your words when I’m asleep,
The velocity of those fragile objects.
I feel the subtle change in temperature
From point to point of warm trajectories.
I want to draw the variations of your words,
Not like cold figures in a book of math
But like a surreal painting by Joan Miro,
All squiggly lines and curlicues,
Colorful amoebas that float on night.
How can these words feel so familiar
When they fall from a stranger’s lips?
You know what you do and why you do
What you do.  What you don’t know is what 
What you do does to me when you do it.

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