The Edge

Breathe

In and hold for three tics

Thoughts race

Exhale the ruins of duality

Repeat

In and hold all fear

Images flash

Exhale unbridled madness

Again

In and clutch the irrational thought

History calls

Exhale anger

Once more

In and salute the escapist

Truth whispers

Exhale the demon speak. 

Concuss

Pliable reality ensnared the seeker

Horizontal truths approach the sun swept cataloguing form

Pacific momentum took the tide with him

Unbeknownst the gulls were sightless

Ridden waves tumbled surfers

Washers lost on the bolt of adrenaline

Tanned hides and wallets

Wealth laden tourists hiding leather initialed man purses under towels by the line

Coarse appraisals underfoot

Sand stretched for a distance to a bend northern in position

Bound by centuries old lava outcroppings

Footwear useless in such tropic terror for a man of little seasoning

Tossing the rubber manacles aside

Up he climbs atop a volcanic organism

Drying with his reasoning the spraying breeze nestles his mind

Aloha, even here, with me, everywhere, yet nowhere

Crevices teem with dark movement

As the one native word he acknowledges scurries with the passage of thought

All legs, the creatures dance with the bestiality of repetition

Porous recognition comes to him as the crabs heckle from side to side

Landward the arboreal scene is a postscript

Whispering to him from behind

As he contemplates the pushback forming in the minutia of passing seconds

Seeking his release among the humpback tails clapping in the distance.

Female

I saw her in an elevator, a restaurant, a bar, a grocery store

She was tanned and fair skinned

Holding a laundry basket, a pad, a menu, a can of black beans

Blonde hair hidden under a hat, red hair curling cross her chest, black hair pinging with each floor, brown hair straightened to an edge

She asked me to move, she said hello, she took my order, she took my gaze

Tall, short, chesty, flat, tight, loose, smiling, frowning, cute, pensive, immoral, moral, younger, older

I took her in

Caught her in my rapture

Released her when I was finished.