Duals

Yusuf Misdaq

partridges

palms upon heads that grasp for a brain to wrangle and blame and say it’s you who’s brought me to this new low. you who hath dishonored me.
your expectations, your expectations.

patridges and turtle doves

dangling upon the lost soul are questions and doubts and doubts of the questions and doubts of the answers and nothing but desires that dangle low enough, drooping over the eyes and guiding each of us by the smile of satisfaction that we seek auto like coffee and brownies to numb the veil we’re under.

cooing canticle, colossal majesty, the monument

marred is my mask that once was a mirror of me and has since become a magnificent duplication of some replication of a tired smudge-memory of something that impressed me when i was immature and i ran with it and now my me is just an invention that someone else invented and even that mask is starting to get scratches and scuffs on it so that my HD screen no longer looks so pristine and clean but rather begins to unfurl and de-twirl like an unpeopled trampoline making us face the fact that what we are living is a dream.

delhi ounces, rosalines of rouge scattered upon tombs of ancience conscience relevance in our real world

we come to a shrine that we’re told is holy, believing none of it. we feel feelings and the atmosphere impresses itself upon us to such a degree that we cannot allow our cynic to speak and insert himself into the moment as he dies to do. the people are weeping and there is a warm glow in our chest that rests and revives us. something in the air we breathe has become authentic and delighted with each armful we take into our bodies. the heart-bell chimes like a delicate lady in a painting who is slanted in somber angelic tones and resting her head upon her heart. all dangled up in eternity with a soul that bursts forth from a body.

We unhold our heads and walk fiercely towards You

Marshaled ranks
Loving arms
Interlocked
Heartiest
Reunitions

— January 2014, Fenton, Michigan

Yusuf Misdaq’s recent series of 6 invisible poetry books are now available in paperback via Amazon / Other works can be accessed at www.yusufmisdaq.com