Current
My breath
shall be sufficient
unto thee
roared
nearly in silence
the attentively controlled muscles
circling
in and out
in opening
closing without cease
to open again
within me
slaying every notion of I am
portraying
instead:
a matchbox counting
off each sulfur
tip
burnt:
one by one
the gift
its warmth
simply of
joy or sorrow
released:
the simplest
one word
answer:
body's heave in spirit's keep—
this treasure is beyond belief:
you are welcome into blood:
into faint thickness & vitreous
matter of star: which hour upon
hour shall re-arouse the flick,
o unchanging, o infinite power:
feeling: this:
how
the automatic magic
snows
where all of this
now eventually
now ever
shall go:
struck
into flames.
Timothy Lavenz is a poet, philosopher, and translator. His work has appeared in Epoché Magazine, Oraxiom Journal, Kunst und Kirche, and Sequestrum. Many of his writings can be found at fragilekeys.com.
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