Somehow: An Ode to John Smieska

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Increase my affinity for sunbeams somehow
all you impossible distance, all your blue smoke
coats me in unlikable arguements

Well-placed ambiguities somehow
reach out to me with magic wands,
weave their wonders, have it known

whether truth exists somehow or just
behind the dawn all reasons come awake
somehow with a final dull refining

that ends nothing but begins
the new already next thing
the world is seeking so as not to see:



Famine.
War.
Disease.

too timely slaughter
and the other
more difficult truths


Somehow
a blind man scales a building with his bare hands
and leaps into the air with just wings to guide him

It is ourselves everyday leaping
from the great height of our dreams
to fall, plundered, into fresh night

Stunt men falling all our lives
through an endless series of canvases
that crush and catch us in turn.

It is my job to remind you to write some everyday lines somehow of some fool's discertation.

To defend the whole horizon.

Good neighbor to my heart,

May devils
and angels guide you.


I curse you with the company of my restless mind.




Scott Krieger
July 27th, 2007