Thursday, January 30, 2025

textbook wingflower silhouette

    to reflect on dreams 
  half recalled may lead to 
   a beautiful thicket of thorns

   arrested by a compound eye 
seizing upon the scene 
 to fracture spectrums of glaring 

 light as flashes to come before  
 the punctuating heartbeat 
   left us dazzled and stunned

in its relentless wake, I 
respond from inside to
stagger aside and cry 

 out in panicked self-defense 
 "Eternal Diocturum!
  My Lord," This one time 

 I can remember calling out 
 in a manner of dealing in vain 
with an electromagnetic cut

nature storms down 
to end up becoming all
caught up in as if into a safe

flaming whirlwind, a liberating 
aspect of annihilation unknown as
 the sensation of knowing who we are 

  to discern palpable alternatives 
 to our unreality as mirrors
   of our ongoing will to reflect  


       shaun lawton 

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