impermissible occlusion

sky dim / occluded
tree branches winter bare
unplugged heat release
leaves turn autumn

............... red

gloom gray, grayer still
now absent foli > age
blood weight less lessons
sky magenta welcomes in

hollow sense of leaves gone
bucket fills with

............... crimson passion

faint scent of dry wind
blossoms lost in
rolling cherry air of

............... magic

with your brush, touch me
paint symbols on my palms,
children play like adults /

............... sealed

missing all but queries, limits

what binds silence tightly
even tighter than an absence?
clot / scar / dam > ned

............... you

what embraces stillness
more completely than

............... you

gray occluded sky dim
lost shadow fog, mist
lonely emptiness shines
upon a fuchsia life re >

............... lived

~

karyn eisler
steve wing

notes on the process