Concerning the Heat of You

24 July 2021 Saturday Poetry Prompt: get romantic

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Trying to madly swim over this great consciousness – reach out for something you – comes back

Touching moving toward a scalding piece – like a Tennessee roof – packing all the moments into brief lines – or making statues out of the seething twilight – shot through with

Your candle your candy your sails – setting into a musing – you prepare yourself for that these days – must be like putting on one’s face

Only the face should be pressed in between the cover and the book –

Weight of waiting – plus the humidity changes what, when I can focus -when it’s too hot to do anything but drink and sweat –

Then to be found in the corners of you –

And the furnace doesn’t break doesn’t go on hiatus on medical leave – but keeps winding that thread through all the right parts –

Indelibly – under the other skin you call home – all placement of furniture and paper structures on

The thin film of heat that only grows – by orders of magnitude – because that’s where old Immanuel placed the sublime.

J.D. Harms 2021