The Life of the Mind


from the ABC set The Winter Moon

The Life of the MInd

As beautiful as smoke
letters flying off pages and swooping like swallows into the eaves
up then darkling into a light blue and a yellowing sunset
into a starling swirl of shadows
moving as one thought
roosting on inky branches
blanketed in sound
readable but only by those who can decipher it
unwreath the code

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Comments

Doeslittle | June 25, 2008 - 08:54

This is lovely. Beautiful images. Liked every line...'readable' jarred a bit, but not sure why really..maybe compared to the sound of the rest of the words in this piece it felt a bit clumsy, but one word apart..just lovely.