Thursday, January 21, 2021

The Uses of Democracy



Democracy Saved,

the headlines read;

a mountain recluse

returns to the trees,

swinging his Keens through the drifts

backing the hillwind.


He'll walk beyond sunset,

sunk in a reverie, into the dark,

no light but the dusk,

no electricity, just stars

pulsing above empty limbs,

and later,

an inextinguishable moon,

sensations laid bare,

echos in the chest,

like the hurt notes of owls,

and of souls,

yearning to be touched.