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Shane Manieri: Tabula Rasa

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

You’ve been on my mind
               constantly. Like a new birth?
A welcoming back into society?
Daydreaming about the weather?
               We have chemistry.
 
Betwixt & between, we, drifting to this place,
               a landing—quiet, puzzling—on an act.
How long will this liminal last?
This charming grip. The grabbing and the grabber.
               A golden smile—a hook
 
of dreams; a stampede of madmen;
               a ship of sorts—a helipad. I twiddle the stern, captain-
like, transitioning, the minutes diminishing
(forever
               strange, and stranger still).
 
Moments… then a breaching; a clear arrangement;
               an eerie quiet; jonquil bulbs burst
then wilt—stem, no root—Our rite of passage.
               I cross a threshold, upward.

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Poetry, Poetry 86, Shane Manieri

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