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The fire crackles, a pernicious impel upon  
S'mores, they bubble down. Some fully succumb to flickering.
Upwards: the smoke phantasms, interpositioning itself against the void like 
a dream, or a moth, akin to the others’ eyes—glassy as they are. We watch
a scarab melt 
like 
sunlight on oil
amid ersatz stones. They are glassy. 
In front, a window darkens as somewhere, 
a bulb silences its drone, quieted by an unthinking digit while 
we repose the fire, each soothing into our own half-cast catechism
yet still tensed like a pause
between stanzas, still
I still am. I am quiet now, my lungs become a wadi
simmering perception down to port reduction. Let it momentarily palm savoring
till it drips between cilia, leaving the blood-red residue of judgment 
then dried nostalgia.
The questioning begins; I hope someone can ask if I am 
happy. Friend, allow me to extol the virtue of serenity—but presently I am a closed orchid (il)luminating, a pertho filled, my canyon willed to the brim by presence, pure present. 

hongtaohu

IL

19 years old

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  • if/then


    If you are questioned, remember to keep your cool, then realize you forgot to. Still, if this is a catechism, then I can’t provide you with an answer. How could I know the question? I’m no Daniel.