Your Afterglow Remains

 

Your afterglow remains:

inexhaustible energy—

slipping through phosphorescence,

drifting like a lucid dream.

Your stylized subtleties

beyond what we perceive

permeate the galaxy,

too bounteous once seen.

Wavelengths unknown

engulf our waking world,

bursting myriad hidden memories

unforgettable eternally.

Moments tossed ashore:

worlds collapse & reappear—

sunk in silky ichor,

extinguishing all fear.

Bronzed halos of distant stars

cast their silent search—

by day, diffuse like fireflies

concealed in sea-entrusted pearls.

Faint echoes of forgotten realms

reflected in your eyes—

Your afterglow remains:

no horizons could defy.

Luminary Clarity

      Etched
into the rippling riptide fabric 
of the ineffable looms of memory
indelibly—
she struck a glance—
a timeshattering trance—
embossed
upon the shifting stainedglass centerpiece
circumscribing my mind's eye—
one unalterable jolt
& unfathomable revolt
against predictability
& all its chiseled certainty:
a paralyzing
resensitizing gaze—
universe-rending
& transcending
one single, solitary moment—
setting my heart
ablaze.

Transactive Memory

Transactive Memory:

Words flow overreactin',
spillin' inseparably
with the divine providence
of lost reality,
the last glimmer of conscious wisps floating freely
beneath flickering
starspun webbing,
intermingled rhythmically
through her collapsing dreams
& cosmic alchemy
erupting, immersing
all shades & gradients of change
& potentialities—becoming
glowing points of mindlink'd fusion—
forget your illusion,
the thing you've searched
& lost where to seek,
this elemental spark of fire
& fortress ignites & excites
the intrinsic cyclical brink of rebirth,
your stormy sanguineous slivers
of solitary truth coiled deep in your eyes:
startling intrusions
in the mind
of the beholder
every eve
you leap.