The Reflexes
One dime, two aspects
One is you, other elects
The sapient, as sword
Poly philosopher lord
Drifting space, hymned
Across beginning to end
Windows without doors
Wounds without wooers
The origin of enervation
The closing of prevarication
A painter to the glass
Nimbus from the sky falls
The umpteen corners
Wilder baptized to donors
Designed on the grass
A zing with zinnia lass
A thinning on thinking
On pale water blinking
The dark shine to feet
Through you to discreet
The inoffensive light
Parricide of the night
And there above sable
Without you walking unable
The avenue of impatience
Clutching the peculiar lessons
The darkened young sneaker
The liquor poured as deeper
The colored goes for black
Incision of much with lack
Under the petals of flower
Sustained by staring power
Burned, invisible and dim
The soul devoutly to grim
As the bees along the wall
The hairy helices look small
A passing epicene creature
A staminate and a posture
Hamsters under the legs
As stirrer shifts on the backs
A hellish body without blood
As dense clouds without flood
The controversial, infiltration
The gold with silver implication
The threaded carpet for you
In uncanny cold to sole rescue
The closed eyes face and leaned
An always sleeper on the wind
The mortals with the immortals
A silence in the noise of portals
So composed but imperfection
As the life without summation
The tint of autumn in laughter
And the pint of milk in water
Deep underground sight sound
As evening is back of the dawn
The fainted past with current
The dried desert in the torrent
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Submitted on August 16, 2017
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