the fall of your soft eyes,
so suddenly slumped and weary.
This weight,
a whisper,
a formless something
hinted at.
I have stepped
unthinking around it,
my words,
waxed brick
brittle and waterproof.
Unmask,
gather your chaos
and conjure the thing itself by alchemy:
sweetness
from the tin-acid taste of emptiness.
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I just realized I still have a lot of work left to do as I have only half of my chapbook, Inverse Origami online. This this is the 13th poem in the book and it appears on page 19. After this one, I have 17 more to put online.
from Inverse Origami - the art of unfolding
by Mar (Mistryel) Walker
Puzzled Dragon Press, 1998
the drawing was not a part of my book.
