By chris
Date: 2006 Dec 03
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in medias res

and I tell you whole empires
rise and fall like an undulating sea rippling grey
on grey
blue on blue
as you on me
as me on you
as a procelain skin woman writhing naked on a bed
with white sheets
completes the circuit of desire
and would it mean anything
in the half-light
of this fire
if I were to tell you that these flames make music
like windy high
thin and bright Toronto
sunshine on days when it reflects off the Quay and
blinds you but never
warms you
and you regain your sight only
to believe you can see the mists of Niagara on the
cupped edge of a
curving earth rising Rising RISING
all the while realizing
that the blue-green pulse that
powers
our lives
and our deaths also
evaporates our reasons like water
(even as it creates our world)  
(even as it turns our seasons)