Proem: To Dream To Write, To Write To Dream

Proem. n - a piece that was written originally with the intention of being prose, however lives more sensically as poetry and is therefore restructured as such.


To Dream To Write, To Write To Dream


She would sit at an oak desk
bleeding her life onto the resistant page
though never draining,
never losing spirit or breath
or heartbeat.
All of her splayed out
in jagged letters
later cut and chopped
into typeset blocks
and served up
and fed to the willing
and maybe not so.
A sustenance,
so that they could live
learn to survive,
find comfort, find breath
find retreat in the pieces of her.
Rich in digestible calories,
driving all starvations out
through pages, through screens and
fingers and eyes and
years.
Spoken on mouths, in tongues, on lands
imagined in earth
or beyond.

She would speak
regurgitating experience
from the churn of her belly
in a foreign room of rustics and colors
huddled, encamped
with followers, with leaders,
with aspirers.
Creating worlds and wisdoms
caught in drifting motes
lit up on the ends of cigarette smoke
and sparkling twilight,
bathed blushing in Rioja
and nuzzled into mountains
or cities of thousand year old streets.

They would all bleed life
into each other,
exsanguinate legacy
from tongue to fingertip
and
bound in paper, or microchip or hologram
or
something she cannot yet find
on the curve of her own tongue.

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