February 27, 2007

blunt etchings

nerve endings
pricked raw and silky,
they throb and flare
when recalled thoughts
get too close
to the core of assent
dart
faint
flee from that fervor

how does one blunt the etchings?
those wisped filaments of want and craze?
the thirst to avert
blend
morph
into an obelisk of phantom
rapture?
that reaches round and past
the fundamental urge to computate?

this data is flawed
or is it the receptacle?
the shrine of self
demands homage from
floating membranes of hunger
in order to fluctuate
with the echoes of passing
appetite