a deliberate scattering of thoughts

... deep breath, candlelight
a beacon enlarged from a thumbnail painted in a fancy salon
focus
religion dressed in pink halloween wigs has taken a knee and
is doomed by dwindling light that casts dark reverberations on
shadowed bread-crumb colored bricks
is it the bell tower tolling? the adjacent cemetery walls weeping?
... unclutter
the record inside the dust jacket perpetuates circles coming home
like a ticking clock hands moving time backwards forward-moving
time now is collected mish-mashed items of a poetic collage with an
artist’s splashes of rain colored by earth dyes saviors of the planet
... float with yourself
bright light shines through windows rainbow-ish stained glass which
cannot absorb the mutant strains of belief where we are all supposed
to forgo individuality, told to blend in, to wear black and white so absent
from this photo album where spots of deep blues, spacious turquoise
and earthy love-and-peace colors
... balance yourself
signposts are missing but perhaps the tiny humans here are more lost
than the setting sun doubting its return, morning's light is a jazzy puzzle
in four dimensions like those rare episodes of Mulder and Scully reciting
Shakespeare’s sonnets in strange gray dialects
return to the candlelight
the bright blinding lights from above are not always angels
dreams look much like these words mixed with fantasy horror running
from doom's shackled light
acknowledge these thoughts

a deliberate scattering of thoughts

the beacon is solar charged and should be enough to float ourselves high
enough for angels and sea gulls not to crash into the airplane avoiding
lightning and landing without turbulence, we will exit using our faith
to guide us from cloud to grass, both imaginary
... calm you inner light
remember mother’s loving arms arise from her last farewell with
oak tree branches shading walls of white brick shining like life that
encloses us all within a multitude of incandescent scenes
to be ignored in this exercise of mindfulness
... exhale and open your eyes