my body
swells full of disjointed signs,
overcome like a slow moving shadow
in seeming overcompensation.
like there’s some sort of ontologically primary
desired elemental solid state -
that the teeming cosmos have an affinity with equal signs
but sometimes they overshoot their mark
and I’m left to endure the remainder
for some indefinite amount of time.
I don’t know how to go if you don’t guide me.
to put it crudely,
I’m walking with my eyes closed, and
the darkness is saturated with overwhelming meaning
because every step is swollen with all the possibilities
of things I can bump into.
and the silence…
it crushes me.
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021