Desired Reversals

What I wanted, I wanted so much I consumed it. Then it wasn’t my
thing anymore. It was passing through me, becoming my energy.
What I didn’t want, I wanted so far from me that I blocked it. I
locked it in a site I could forget about. Now that thing consumes me,
feeding back through the walls like fire, sound, or gravity.

You’re not an island, as who is. More like, we’re spits, or peninsulas.
Nevertheless, when the high tide strands us — a long way — we can always get to where someone begins to harbor fondness.
Shallow water ports are hard to come by, it’s true, but low tide
will define, and anyway the best part’s inland–less wind–more there to
see.
If you’re headed this way, down the strait, or on the morning
ferry, and we meet up somewhere a few words from here, we’d better be
ready for things beautiful and strange. I’m just saying. Everything
celebrates that celebrates a we-change.

The surface of the lake was almost perfect, like a blue plate. No wind,
nothing to upset it. You told me you wanted to break the lake. Why
would you want to break the lake?
Well with nothing more specific full of wonder down an
autumn’s early lightfall pretending, we lapsed in a copse, then, panting.
Along an owed series of ifs that thenned together in no wind out of
mind…
I loved you past tense, beyond tense. Lakeside, we were the
dream defiers, dream deifiers. Forget any debts. Forget the morning
chill. There was nothing more we needed to get through our heads.
Between us, I too wanted to break the lake. To reset it more
perfect.

Tiptoe–hush, now–stealth becomesthe early way–characteristically
we lay bare nerves against a Braille world. Dot-by-letter dares revealing
then: imaginary sentences with real words in them.
I’m up, it’s dawn, sadly half-spent (haply half-earned?),
approximately gray. Everything, this season’s weather: touch-and-go
today. New and old, latest sun and undone dew, exchange a mist-and-
fog, “Hello.”
And then, now, quiet, is it? Yes. Between the distance and the
windowscreen, drenching sudden showers tilt it down, felt freshets.
Rainfall brushes grasses; drizzle presses houses; water lets us eavesdrop,
runs adrift, and comes aground. All clean.
Put a finger on it. Does the rain say? Or seem to say, “The
world would be clear to you. It even writes you when it has to.”