Flights- 23: Diminished Capacity

 

23: Diminished Capacity 

This 

Nothing 

But an exorcise

Drill

Pantomimed

False Dance 

With a sometimes 

Valid 

Container 

Tipped 

Now ebbing 

Last

Hopes

Of thirst

Quenching 

Vital 

Materials 

In

Diminished Capacity 

With

Viral

Visuals 

Flights- 22: For Now

 

22: For Now

Words

Ocular 

I read you like a book

Cover 

To 

Predictable 

Cover

Didn’t 

Matter 

What mask you wore

That day

Or any other

I’ve 

Had 

My share

Of 

Grand theft 

Boating

In this lake

I keep 

The life jacket on

24/7

For Now

Flights- 21: You’ll See

 

21: You’ll See

Cravings 

For 

Mundane 

Stupid 

Lame

And

Boring 

Mundane 

In an oval

An 

Ovum

An Old Valley

Flights- 20: Thicker Skin

 

20: Thicker Skin

If

All it took

Was a 

Thicker 

Skin

I would’ve 

Callused 

Over 

Years Ago 

Flights- 19: Meaningful Turn

 

19: Meaningful Turn

Squandered 

Gifts 

Sent

Plummeting 

Down The Ladder 

That 

Never Had Rungs 

How to 

Keep up

The pace

With These Shoes

Made

Of Grease

Chances are 

Books 

Can 

Write 

Stranger Fiction 

Only meant

To be read

Out Loud

To the 

Blank Expanses 

At Every 

Meaningful Turn

Flights- 18: With Ribbons Made of Iron

 

18: With Ribbons Made of Iron

Give me

Names

Take 

Bits

Like 

Candy

From a dish

Inhabitants 

Infected 

With

Borrowed

Life force

Betrayed 

By my own 

Molecules 

While they

Hesitate 

I scream

Don’t Feed Them!!!

COME BACK!!!

Repetitive 

Histrionics 

Relentless 

Waves 

Of

Regret 

Tie every plait

With ribbons 

Made of

Iron

Flights- 17: Body

 

17: Body

Physical 

Physique 

Don’t 

Abandon Me Now

I’m Connected 

Unequivocally 

And Hovering 

Near

Above 

Beside

And Devoted

Hopefully 

Never

Implying any

Misconduct 

My Dear

Dear

Body 

Flights- 16: The Trap of Being

 

16: The Trap of Being 

No more 

Helpful Information 

Jazz hands

Jellybeans 

Hollyhocks 

And 

Blue jeans 

Only 

In the moon garden 

I can hear

The water

And 

Fall in love 

Again 

With the river bed

And it glows

With

The Trap of Being 

Flights- 15: I Win

 

15: I Win

You are 

Underground 

So far

Underground 

I win

I win

Dreams 

Now

Of being 

Underwater 

Wonder

Where I’ll go

Skeletons 

In the closet 

Until May

Fulfilling 

The favorite 

As far as angels go

Flights- 14: Crystal Clear

 

14: Crystal Clear

Membrane 

Between 

Us

Ghostly

Film

Pantomime 

Phantom 

In a 

Cellophane frock

Crystal Clear

Silence 

No guess work involved 

Flights- 13: The Unconscious

 

13: The Unconscious 

I’ve Come Thru

Every 

Other

Winter 

Why not this one

When

All Remaining Chips

Have been 

Chipped 

Away 

Nibble 

After Nibble

Left

Needing 

A Good Handhold

From The Shadows 

When the World

Has taken 

All Resolve

And sleep

That

Eluded Us So

I turn over

With

A comfort 

And am

Closing in 

On 

The 

Unconscious