Plus Life - Joseph Robertson

Prejudice
a failure of innocence
or innocence eaten
eroded by its own ambitions
the gentle advance of the unimaginable
a 'cancer yatra'
infectious horrendous blooming
the ache that inhabits the cry
that inhabits what once
amid softer breezes
stood whole & free
upon its own ground...

what resides far off
in a prior terrain obscured
becomes forbidden fruit...

everything small is big
at its beginning at its end
at the place where it is everything
in every way
at the center of its otherness
ancient wisp of aspiration
now real
now sudden stitch
stepping out beyond
what was once
& forever
turning under over
folding without fabric
anonymous watch witnessing
what furtive feeling filling overflowing
we awaken
fall awry
pardon the grave & impardonable
lurch askance into the latest
looming spill
the parched interlocking pattern
of the ungenerous & the not-given...

the promise without walls
without willing
the brave legend of pillage
& the lightfoot lyric
that speaks to avoid speech
& its tired aggressions
all this & more
we use to fill the space
between our ragged fibers
our hidden selves
& the hope that tragically remains
keeping watch over wreckage
that seems to have no beginning & no end
so vast as to escape the noble
acute mischief of the little lonely being
the whole self unnumbered
& entirely without malice or discord
without destructive urges...

long after the cackling banshee
of the lonely gestures
found her quiet & withdrew
the question emerges
(crystalline mordant capillary question):
how many times in search of water
the object of most primordial desiring
(we are ninety percent water
plus life)
might they find their way
to a common understanding
of place

 		distance

         fever...

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