Sutures of connection,

words tightly sewn

 

Seaming together

—closing the unknown

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)

Clouds encircle

sage colored dreams,

ice crystals block the sky

 

Today in shadows,

yesterday’s warning,

 memories start to cry

 

The stratus thickens,

impending doom,

prophesy to remind

 

Aeolus has woken,

his rain of tears

—ablution most unkind

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

Science…

 bastard child

of philosophy

and reason

formulaic delinquent

of an answer

in flux

Serving itself

as it shuns

its true

master

bowing down

to its

tenets

the truth

—undiscussed

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: April, 2021)

Love regrets,

promises return,

comets in mourning

—meteors burn

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)

Cleft palate ill-fated

splitting inside us,

a hidden betrayal

—memory’s scar

 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)

Its special indifference

and weathering smile,

reminds every passer

 —its strength and its guile

 

It stands in the desert

alone and unbowed,

to flower in protest

—its nature avowed

 

(Tuweep Arizona: January, 2018)

 

Knowledge  

is   

 to thought

as

Thought

is

to intent

as

Intent

—forever ordains

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

Neither one thing,

nor three things,

nor ten things

—but nothing

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

I’ve not forgotten you,

but I can’t remember love

as moments went unpromised,

 hours lost to wasted years

The future hiding one last spark,

 memories yet to burn

that Fall we spent in lust’s inferno

—dancing in the flames

 

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm

 

Larcenous freedom,

mask so divine

Hiding in plain sight

—stealing from time

 

(The New Room: March, 2021)

Copyright 2021 Kurt Philip Behm