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Sunday, May 13, 2018

breath is the messenger 5/13/18


truth can never be spoken
in the form of an answer.
answers are icons, 
indebted to the shelf-life of time.
be-spoken can never be authentic allegiance.
sound, coming out of the mouth,
is subject to fate.
tone, coming out 
of the sound of your mouth,
is a calling, as destiny.
know that utterances are always migratory,
that cursing is the sacredness of primal
reaching out into the dark,
that shallow breathing is in the role  
of listening to the story conveyed
but not always reported,
that one’s tongue is constantly recording
the tension of that mind forever in flight,
that evocative is always searching
for a deeper inhale,
that fragrance often demands
a walk-softly to begin 
the check-to-check, body-to-body as a dance,
that a sigh often needs a hug,
that a sneeze often uses the start gun sound
to reignite the burn of being alive,
that whimper is often breathy
preening one’s emotional feathers.
breath is always the messenger
but never in the form of an answer . . .

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