Wendy Grimsley's Writing for January 2008

some familiar vacancy

there are no signs of life
but a trace of dismissal
that mingles with the bleach-tinged breath
you can count down the alpha and omega phase
like seconds between thunder and bolt
but there be no god's war here
no thrashing fists or passionate kills
only the scent of a past life thrill
that died out like some previous monkey of us
no shed tears only disappointed sighs
that lack motivation enough to leave the mind
and pass the lips we once knew
thi…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on January 27th, 2008 at 11:51pm — 2 Comments

kundalini conceives

if the exhaled smoke could be read
like lyrics and spoken into
fingertip memory upon
open pores, still heavily weeping

tattooed images would be a Rosetta stone
translated in ancestral tongue
achieving a depth of intuition
that could only be imagined by the blind

but he anoints his eyes
with the souls of my feet
feeling the pulsing energy
that leads an aortic path

his being penetrating
the thin layers into the bloodstream
grav…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on January 11th, 2008 at 2:13pm — 2 Comments

detach

my neural net is no longer associating
no longer firing and forging cages

unplugged to start forgetting
purging memory by perceiving from all directions

questioning the precepts but not accepting the answers
makes this an omnidimensional kind of view

i never believed in anything that wasn't feasable
i've been unreasonable to the point of perfection

regression cycles back to inauguration
where the chemically imbalanced are infallible

I wi…

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Posted by Wendy Grimsley on January 10th, 2008 at 10:25pm — 1 Comment