Confluence of Sounds

rhyme things with sounds
and so define verses
it's like shredding beads
without holding the rosary

pray to a lesser god
cry this shamelessness
take off shirt and pants
and throw yourself headlong

into the dishwasher
and swim between bubbles
undo certain meshes
fix some crashes

count veins in the leaves
sail like a caravel
to leeward puffy
rediscover universes

it's like lulling sleep
no hand in the crib
beg no forgiveness
with crocodile tears

take off hat and gloves
and lay down on the plank
on the way to execution
found anchors on islands

miles and miles from here
with its sound waves
the things that rhyme
the sounds that echo

the soundless echoes
got lost in the walls
in the shadows projected
on the walls of a myth.


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