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Fall 1997 - Volume 20, Number 1

ascension

 

the pain of my eyes

acknowledge the light she radiates and

lingers like a lone

                        piano chord

plucked from fingers stiff and crooked

 

so my eyes slip down like steep

                                                rooftops

spiral down in a brick red fading

to colorless  concrete

i bleed perception

    of a protagonist by definition i fail.

  ascension.

the pastel sidewalk sky fails

often i speak of indiscernible

  infinities beyond the last train station

spilling    *  *ss*s*sssssssstars

across the cosmic black crayola colored in

a boundless

                        crescent pattern of belief

beyond present states of question

 i've got all the time in the world to follow the monolithic

dreams i've strained to remember trained to forget

 

from an astral acquaintance i find

revelation

 below a centennial sacred system called belief

i am

stretching.  past a solar outline

drawn in like a body

then colored outside the lines like children

  staring up at spiderwebs

unseeing eyes pass the vagueness that

shapes every note transmitted

 from antennae

pointing to god

 

-By Andrew Peterson

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