Eyeshine Part 6

Nestled quietly, a supine stare erodes both time & place unto bearded grey - nuances clasped in a breathless chat with death.

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LANDING SCHEMES

Omens are the cloth of dreams scissors used to open sky - the future riding birds en route to ariel docking piles.

Leonardo was of the opinion creativity might be enhanced a notch should aspiring artists nota bene princ.i.p.alities, bile, their rhumes as tiles then perceive them piecemeal as stratagem, not snuff or random blotch, the heads of diseased pigs but conjuror-s.e.xtants toward the stars.

 

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MIRAGE

The intense focus of light but pointillism, into this juncture bits of light surround rough, inverted sky - dawn is their message unfurled about the alumni apparatus of incensed eyes and whispered sun.

The heavy mirage of dots, landscape locked Seurat, a frieze of summer heat choking water lilies - the sun as a crystal s.h.i.+p adrift across bedlam-sponsored random dots.

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STONE GUIDE

She was fading - into the stone into rifled shadows heavy with fallen light, rippled boughs of splitting fruit & droopy leaves to a sallow body under clumsy years that ripped the tunic of her coat while bleating the dismal age with each petal fall of a stockinged foot.

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RED ILLUSIONS UNDER GLa.s.s

Life as green illusion - the cool fronds of the fern are deep set in firmest soil and the gra.s.sy narrows brook a silent, liquid play.

Red illusions under gla.s.s - quietly picking strawberries where a woman hums to the buzz of flies with the afternoon sun disappearing overhead.

Each grasp of the berry a red stain, the darting of seeds, crimson tendrils do confuse the eye with a polka dot starling raucous in glee above.

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