Monday, June 27, 2022

Keston Sutherland


          Solid in Sexdecasylabics

Beside the open border of the teller station counted on 
that scene erupts apart from its reality below in flight 
to where you let it float between the wicker gaps in sanity 
in grainy resolution on the wall in knots projected fire 
will be fanned to decorate in platitudes and sunlit ash 
that no erotic suspension of the progressive-slide drawer 
ever need produce too much paralysis to shift. The way 
that a broken mind or heart adherent to the cavity 
you stand in for eternity is always hard to stand or not 
still now containing pictures of the faces that still vacate it 
every time the static or revolving back is turned for good 
to make another person who had loved you go astray. 
This is counted on as the multiple of living abstraction 
native to the planet and cutaneous as melanin 
warped to a meniscus on the dollar, in a dreamy waste 
of time to wake up depopulated clutching at genitals 
inflated into concrete fate or pegged to balusters of air 
as the departure of people you love forever proves to be 
perfectible in honest irony and in this is just like 
the void that capital erects in every passing breath it takes 
for granted like a scalpel to ecstasy buried in marrow 
exploding now to cool tomorrow savage in serenity.

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