{"id":253,"date":"2009-04-30T04:57:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-04-30T04:57:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:57:19","slug":"a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cause and Effect<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong> \t\t\t\t\tIt’s because the earth continues to wobble on its axis
\nthat we continue to stumble down the streets of the heart.
\nIt’s because of the loneliness of the first cell trying to swim
\nthrough its primordial pool that we are filled with a kind of
\ngalactic fear. For example: one moment a rocket falls
\ncapriciously into a square. Another moment, a rogue wave
\nturns over the fishing boat whose crew leaves their memories
\nfloating like an oil slick that never reaches shore.
\nIn this way we understand our dying loves scratching at the door.
\nIn this way, each love creates its own theory of pain. Each love
\ngnaws the derelict hours to the bone. But because there are
\nso many blank spaces in history we still have time
\nto write our own story. Wittgenstein said our words have
\nreplaced our emotions. He never understood how
\nwe have to cleanse ourselves of these invisible parasites
\nof doubt and fear. We might as well worry about
\nthe signals from dead worlds wandering around the universe
\nforever. Think instead of how the trees prop up the sky.
\nHow the rain falls into the open eyes of the pond
\nbringing a vision no one expected. Here’s mine: this bee
\nhovering over the pencil seems to bring a message from
\nthe deepest flowers you inhabit. Because I don’t know
\nwhere all this love has come from, because the clouds are
\ncovered with our footsteps that know no time, I am
\nno longer surprised when each day comes from a new place,
\nbecause in this way, I can imagine these words getting lost
\nin your lungs, my fingers curling inside you as if I could
\ngather you inside my own heart, or tracing the slope of your hip
\ntowards a whole other world. Don’t worry. Like us the planet
\nwobbles because of the shifting hot and cold zones, high
\nand low pressures, the pull of tides. The stars that are
\nthese words are always closer than we think despite
\nthe theories of astronomers. In this way, I will always be there,
\na rain falling into the sea, the abandoned light opening your eyes
\ndespite the curtains of reason, the life you give each time
\nyou turn to me, because the stumbling breaths we borrow
\nfrom each other are all we have to keep each other alive.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Richard Jackson<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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