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Ode to the Autumn Rode

Rolling hills

Petaled with golden embers

Surrendered to the asphalt

Marmalade light

Whispered through

The clouded panes of

Oak shingled homes

And the bark was

Cloaked in mist

Like the breath

Of a ghost

As pearl white

As the looming sky

That hung above my head

When dusk grew sullen

The earth became still

And the Autumn crow

Took it's final flight

Observations:

Part I

 

Tiny fires hung from
The cold ceiling of night
Blueberry light trickled through
Black pine clothed in crystal
The mighty light of the copper bulb 
Flooded through oak and thorn
Like a slow river
Yellow meadows peppered in shadows 
Of wicked branches and fluttering birds
Willows foamed like refinery clouds
Or the banks of the black rivers
Plane lights blink through the distance
And I remember how it felt

When you were still here

Apparitions: Part I

 

Light bulbs kindled

Their honey rays

On cherry veneer

I watch as our shadows

Awaken from slumber 

As dawn cascades

Into an icicle glow

Like the solemn light

Of a vintage projector 

Needle and wax

Leak through the cracks

Soft words of

Leonard Cohen 

Whisper through the halls

Lost at Sea

 

Her Atlantic eyes were

Teeming with neon

Her skin was

Cloaked in the city's glow

Her frame swelled like

Churning waves

And with every tide

She drew me deeper

Into her currents

Boston

 

In the cement veins of the city

Bullet trains bellow

Among the bluster

I wondered

How can such loud places have

Such quiet faces? 

Illuminated in holy light

Of phosphorescence 

How their eyes must yearn

For the sun

How their hearts must ache

For warmth

But shadows follow us all

Deeply into

Cold November nights

Bio-luminescent Love

 

Deep into the dark winter night

Cold seeps into my bones

The embers of my heart

Ache in scarlet when

I remember the vastness

Of her oaken eyes

And how it makes me feel

Like I'm cascading 

Into the trench of my soul

The gravity of her beauty

Pulls me slowly

Into her currents

And a dozen stars hang

Over my head in 

Bioluminescence

And I'm thankful for darkness

Gravity

 

I have never looked at anything

The way I look at her

She's sapphire glass

Of the Boston Aquarium

Teeming with life, spiraling

She's the rays of dusk

Embering on the pearl snow

Under a ceiling peppered in satellites

Every day I'm taken

Deeper into her gravity 

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