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Poetic Thoughts - Neil Cain - by C.W. Pruitt II

posted: Oct. 02, 2015

Neil Cain

Neil Cain is an artist based in Rocky Ripple, IN. He works as part of the artists' collective Pattern Hungry and performs with The Action, Trancedancer, & Ligyro.

www.patternhungry.com poets.nyq.org/poet/neilcain

The space inside the

latches,

a hard freeze, the echo

a place beside whipping

plasma,

this dancing breath

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A length of pause,

timely grasp

initiated

held under

the settling

bursting forth

thru flesh and mind

terrible prism'd beams

reconstruct and decide

which bits hold together,

and what pieces are to be

swallowed

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Harnessing the opening,

trading woven thoughts,

who will harvest the

scopolamine from ancestral

blood, letting, go

we arrived inside the

equinox,

conceding and

bewildered,

a fox upon the

paramount,

an eagle's passing talon,

the speech of sprawled

stone,

intoned upon the helixes,

resonate within the peat

and kisses,

the oak and the

mistletoe,

the scythe and dagger,

the inches crept whist

lost in Helios' trance

cw@broadripplegazette.com

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