and then our exile

And now, installment two.
i also found a free comment-thing at enetation! so! people! comment!
[the minor thrills one gets out of this 'thing' truly are humbling]




Notes [individual various] part two.
~
Inside, I got lost
In the mirror-palace of enormity.
Outside, I faced alone
The wolves and biting snow.
Alone, I am fixed
To the threshold, an arm through each window.
One facing out
The other looking in.
~
Two ways of counting stars:
1
Pinpoints of light are scattered
All throughout this surprise—
I examine them with my fingertips,
Protective of their quiet, their
Contours of radiation

2
So many to process, a
Methodical mind schooled in the
Ways of calculus turns its
Attention to these droplets of silver.
Their vitality and essence robbed
By a marauder in a cape and cloaked
With precision, each is categorized
And systematically ripped from virginity
In the ways of modern science.
~
a mist of vague indigo
folds up the orb from common sight;
to gawk and stare is not its lot
this night, as the world is not its own to show.
~
Forgotten along the wayside, it
Stares up at an uncomprehending night sky.
Highways and myways abound with lit
Pumpkins, garish in the late autumn leaf,
But it alone is alone, freed from the
Exhaust of meaningless poison and yet
Tired of the endless solitaire.
~
The creases in his palms are yet untouched
By any blood of his own—the villages of
Dark-skinned savages obliterated are not
His work but that of metal and steel.
(the neutron bomb cannot be preached to with ethics.)
~
flight—a hurried rush of forms
(human in daylight)
wrapped in shrouds to ward off the interminable
spiralling fear and constant propelling repulsion.
bundled into a car, driven off into the night
another is gone, eloped with the age of his dream
--or is it not? A mind confused, bewildered by the
ushering in of new terms…
at any rate, we are left here and you.
~
Unwanted images cloud clarity…how to work
When your face is before me?
Unthinkable, I tell you, unthinkable!
At any rate, he wouldn’t allow it in the first place.
Just relax, enjoy the show.
~