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cast off to

the thrown of self into myriad motion

the thing of things

but still not

cast off to music 'til aching muscles and fingers cry release

stumble across the ebb and irony

strength of ebony flows out

but ivory teethed memory will not let go

in all the cast off to inspiration perspiration

still the stronger remaining

cast off from music

but still not

cast off to speaking

idol conversation

idle converse

idyll conversion

definition absolution

undefined unspoken remaining

cast off from all enabled verbal

but still not

cast off to art

explosion fusion of color and texture

find to lose self in the formation

something opiating intoxicating of dulling driving

red white poppies to still the noise heal the pain

cast off mastered painted dreams

but still not

cast off to reasoned flight

hold the head aloft

make servant of the heart

beaten screaming broken

but when crush of blow ceases

emptied of its power

still it crawls out in same direction

cast off from teeming touching thought

but still not

cast off to the power of prose poised poetry

grasp the elusive butterflied image

when within the hand the metaphor float

becomes the morphed sting

cast off from poem of perfect pitch

all images between and fore and aft

but still not

cast off to gratified embrace

the every joy of life

all contained within the journey

of the 'miz and the mirth

save remaining one

cast off the every touch of all

but still not

cast off to the read

of worded self and others many

where frozen in time

the ever present moment

but lingering lying melting all

remains the one

cast off from sum of every read

but still not

cast off to write

the every imagined fetch

to outdistance and hold the memory

elsewhere than the present written words

contained in endless pages

save one

cast off from the black and white and right of write

but still not

cast off to enjoin

these all and the infinite more

all forced at random

to never not the ceasing

as if the intensity of them all

would capture and hold

deepening the resolve

but still not

cast off the boat

to traverse the waters

now becoming tears

reminded joys and sorrows

cast off the line

to fish for how

to eat a lifetime of life

and caught it

but still not

cast off the net to draw it in

the all, the cannot be contained

large the surface tension broken

larger still remaining beneath, the life of its tail

many lifetimes more than enough

but still not

cast off to cease to try

the thrown of self into myriad motion

the things of things

for remains the one that will not leave go

cast off from to

for still not

cast off no more for nothing casts off from me

the sound of color * the whisper of touch * the taste of perfume

the face occupied in every attempt to distract to remove

the breath and breathing of your name

from the collection 'Ravnsong' by the same author

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