quando l'amor divino mosse di prima quelle cose belle *
(Dante, Inferno, Canto I, XLII)
[in a club with writhing lampshades]
a first for you: being opened to see, be
[all light and movement tilted, stretched in order to reach closer]
a first for you and I, of many: allowing words to pass naked between
[once naked, our resemblances observed]
we mirror in quietude, fragility, peaceseeking, truthmaking
[quietude: the lake so tranquil that even a fallen feather would shatter]
[emergence: these hours when the seed somehow begins to explore, beyond itself]
to surrender and be guided, without design or hand
[fire lit -uncontained- continues to this moment, then beyond]
altitude is attained: no dropping from this point, never coming down
[the drugs don't work, they just make you work]
I know I'll see your face again, star-encrusted dreamface of thee
[ascension: all is dream]
our other sleeping selves: rugged-up rulebound / drugged-up doublecrossed
[see us carefree like never]
before we could turn any further, we are met by the future
[waved on by the seraphim, pilots of otherworldly lamplighting above]
sure signals, uninterrupted messages, no mixed signs
["You know Monica, this is very intense."]
in(present)tense
[my fingers unpuppetstrung comb through cascading hair: your hair]
disbelief, that of a spectator to oneself in dream
[our ease of touching]
as if we were paired before, in other translucent waters
[it's now and we kiss. we kiss now. here, we, kissing the now.]
* Translation: "... when divine love first moved these things of beauty..."
(Dante, Inferno, Canto I, XLII)
[in a club with writhing lampshades]
a first for you: being opened to see, be
[all light and movement tilted, stretched in order to reach closer]
a first for you and I, of many: allowing words to pass naked between
[once naked, our resemblances observed]
we mirror in quietude, fragility, peaceseeking, truthmaking
[quietude: the lake so tranquil that even a fallen feather would shatter]
[emergence: these hours when the seed somehow begins to explore, beyond itself]
to surrender and be guided, without design or hand
[fire lit -uncontained- continues to this moment, then beyond]
altitude is attained: no dropping from this point, never coming down
[the drugs don't work, they just make you work]
I know I'll see your face again, star-encrusted dreamface of thee
[ascension: all is dream]
our other sleeping selves: rugged-up rulebound / drugged-up doublecrossed
[see us carefree like never]
before we could turn any further, we are met by the future
[waved on by the seraphim, pilots of otherworldly lamplighting above]
sure signals, uninterrupted messages, no mixed signs
["You know Monica, this is very intense."]
in(present)tense
[my fingers unpuppetstrung comb through cascading hair: your hair]
disbelief, that of a spectator to oneself in dream
[our ease of touching]
as if we were paired before, in other translucent waters
[it's now and we kiss. we kiss now. here, we, kissing the now.]
* Translation: "... when divine love first moved these things of beauty..."
'The Drugs Don't Work' by The Verve, lyrics by Richard Ashcroft, (c) 1997 Hut Recordings
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