the ins and outs of breath

in-breath is the land of inquiry.

out-breath is the world of describe.

in-breath is innocence, 

while out-breath is the wide of surmise.

in-breath is a rope climb

and out-breath is the after-distanced, viewed.

in-breath is wardrobe on

while out-breath is after mirrored in review.

in-breath is a wild safari 

yet out-breath is a petting zoo.

in-breath is airborne 

and out-breath is landing grand.

in-breath is emotions forming

but out-breath is mentalities in conclusion.

in-breath is thought taken up

then out-breath is conclusions made.

in-breath is senses on alert

for out-breath is everything identified.

in-breath is focus forward

while out-breath is rest assured.

in-breath is initiatory innocence 

for out-breath to be that of philosophized.

in-breath is the heir to experience

but out-breath is the bible of results.

in-breath grows wings

yet out-breath wears boots.

in-breath imagines

where out-breath will therefore pays dues.

in-breath creates

what out-breath then care-takes.

in-breath journeys

for out-breath then has memories.

in-breath itches

where out-breath will come to scratch.

in-breath wants verbs of pronouncement

while out-breath wants nouns of identify.

in-breath wants pour to fill

but out-breath wants drunk into satisfy.

in-breath wants kite up into a windy sky.

then out-breath wants string wound again on the spool.

in-breath has no end to beginnings

yet out-breath is where endings come to complete.

in-breath is the search for gold

but out-breath is the sensibility of worth.

in-breath is where truth comes to live

and out-breath is where truth comes to lie.

in-breath is the search for timing.

out-breath yawns at the passage of time.

in-breath is the artfulness 

of all of these things taken up,

while out-breath is eventually the passage 

of all of these things,

coming into settling down . . .