Charles Henry Lynch
Graced by Singe and
Shadow
singe: fiery blackness incomplete;
shadow: a solid’s castoff, draped and fallen
Hint of flame’s desire to flee
flagrant conflagration
(which may destroy . . . or purify)
Reside in silhouettes
Become hot comb’s scar on tender nape,
shirt placket’s stain page’s crisp flaking
until
Kindred spirit masks be / speak
to grace us both warm shadow
shedding light on Heaven’s favor
Bestow
a spell with / in these moments
to read me clear pass words like “victual”
(sea silent; u suits itself to suite tea)
Then burrow under hinge of noon
to get the picture:
Mind, on set “ours” poetica foretells
you are maker too--
of bound tradition (and off-the-cuff)
barbed warble medley riff
eminent emanation street talk guff
ancestral echo’s ricochet
singe: fiery blackness incomplete;
shadow: a solid’s castoff, draped and fallen
Hint of flame’s desire to flee
flagrant conflagration
(which may destroy . . . or purify)
Reside in silhouettes
Become hot comb’s scar on tender nape,
shirt placket’s stain page’s crisp flaking
until
Kindred spirit masks be / speak
to grace us both warm shadow
shedding light on Heaven’s favor
Bestow
a spell with / in these moments
to read me clear pass words like “victual”
(sea silent; u suits itself to suite tea)
Then burrow under hinge of noon
to get the picture:
Mind, on set “ours” poetica foretells
you are maker too--
of bound tradition (and off-the-cuff)
barbed warble medley riff
eminent emanation street talk guff
ancestral echo’s ricochet
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