"The Ovenbird" and "Bathos and Coda"
The Ovenbird
I stopped, even though I can never
stop because the worlds
are revolving and the direction
of this world is not
the direction of my
world in thought
and the passing by of each other
is dizzy on a round - about
that I ran and pushed
hard to start
then leaped on to stop
looking back through
centrifugal force tipping
my saucer by
perspective in the middle
I may be flying or nearly
if I pulled
myself to the edge and let
go at this rate
would be flinging no good
I want my dream the one
that no matter how
droll it seems
there was majestic flapping
of my arms I took off
from a standstill
and soared in a word
effortless not like a bird
an angel no
like a mythic god
who delivers
hammers, sex, feasting and
famine moments of mercy, action
and rain that no one questions
because we are simply gods acting
according to our starts
and stop, I did want
to tell you about the ovenbird
but his story is moving
past in an opposite
direction so fast and I am out
flapping my best into a myth.
Bathos and Coda
Consider that all is what
is made by why, that when
doesn’t factor and who is open
to interpretation. Soul kites accept
chase and the try wise
know
vernacular drive is lungs high.
Anticipation is tearing up the pact
made in before you fraught
on to funnel breathe walk
from around the airspace that could be
filled per its existence
where.
Knit experience into your
speaking bones motion
(of exhaustion on course
we could choose)
to ripple past lips reading
up the cracks of things happening
back story. But
the divided
mind
arcs are straining,
and an effort prescribed
in a third eye pose
sent positive reception. Dreams
understand with lack
of preciseness
the ambient needs arranging
conscious (if verifiable.)
existence
is real, must it be solid
that it proves form? Being no less
than sated
provokes fuller worthy.
Of similar account, although balance may curtal
the globose subtlety,
stationary release is fumbling...
(preserve deciduous concepts and likewise shed permanent
prerogative.)
Did you mention? That a blank
recording was our pistol
start. Propelled
forward on vulnerable empty, at what
is it considered by name if the beginning is
not yet
the filament,
and is beginning, the start
of what, or in opposition of where,
and is it when
that begets why?
Emotion crammed, inward sonic
misbehavior eroding sections forgotten
deeply secure, and
it should
yes
have been, should
have been
over,
spun out
in loops of beautiful useless,
expelled inspiration
swallowing cleanly for its carpet.
Prance lips to tongue, practicing the pace
in reserves, until there is no difference now
or then, own power,
to live as noisy joy and with no
ordinary shame; to formulate
conclusions such as
they may sustain the work of hour
and write passage joining shared
dimensions. Felting
or
convolute explanations
for what
inward
we already know with
out.
Mindy Mae Friesen's poetry has also appeared in Ascent Aspirations and Counterexample Poetics.