Hallucination Abbreviated
A pyramid of blue light ascends
A pyramid of blue light ascends
from yr hands folded together
with warm mesquite branches
turning up the volume of a monsoon—
Three blocks away a dog barks
for a thousand years
in the padded walls of yr ears
, crackling the air like a serpent's tongue
flanked by purple orbs dancing in the wind...
Auras are charged by voices
in the mountains spiraling through
memory's trap doors—voices voices
voices—would you walk across the
wilting promise of yr own eyes? Enough
for the other side to greet yr reckoning
in green & silver waves?
with warm mesquite branches
turning up the volume of a monsoon—
Three blocks away a dog barks
for a thousand years
in the padded walls of yr ears
, crackling the air like a serpent's tongue
flanked by purple orbs dancing in the wind...
Auras are charged by voices
in the mountains spiraling through
memory's trap doors—voices voices
voices—would you walk across the
wilting promise of yr own eyes? Enough
for the other side to greet yr reckoning
in green & silver waves?
-- Symeon Nostrakis
