Years go fast – 4 years ago, today, from Paul Lenzi, Click thru to the original.
“Abstract Brain” by Jack Davis
You disappear in the light
after spending the night in my head,
taking back what you gave me,
the crystals and gems
I have no chance to wrap up in muslin.
You just snatch them right out of my brain,
assembling kaleidoscopes
inside your pockets,
already too full of
amnesia built up
of so many bland
indigestible sleeps.
But for whom will they sparkle
their herringbone joinery?
Are there eyes in your pockets,
amygdalic orbs
set among that detritus
of subconscious chattels?
Surely not mine.
That intricate overstock,
hard with translucence,
must be intended for somebody else.
Unless you have notion
to bring them again. Is that how you play?
Giving and taking, over and over,
the same limbic baubles
you won’t let my open eyes see?
If so then I beg,
before vanishing next time,
please leave me
a name, or a smell,
some…
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VERY nice…
Paul is definitely still missed. Thanks for reblogging this one…
Whenever I run across Paul Lenzi, usually in a comment nested in a related link to a post, I take that as a “sign” and go to his site and look at what he posted on that day, different years ago. A man who was in the Insurance game for many years, then later in life wrote a great blog, and seemed to have a great surrounding of family, friends, food, music, and poetry. I enjoyed his use of fine words, his themes, and the subtle overall art of his posts – words and accompanying graphic, typically. I miss him though I have never met him except through his blog. There are a handful of bloggers I feel that way about, writers who were here and then gone, through various forms of attrition.
That’s a wonderful way to memorialize him, methinks. Along with everything else, he seemed to have a great deal of compassion and empathy towards those who suffered….
(And yes, we’ve lost so many talented, dear poets here. Alas….)