Henri Cartier Bresson's Perception of America

Fallacy and Literacy

You have not read the proper series of letters

laid down by the wise, those artful masters of letter-laying,

the lovers of word and definitive meaning

and therefore you should be shunned from the wizard clan

for the mere hunch of probable ineptitude

and since we cannot track the way you think

without the erudite capacity that we so gallantly have honed

you undoubtedly have not the cognitive dimension

to even share a gaze.

Proposal 1

To be open-minded is to teeter between doubt (self-doubt) and trust (a trust in others);
it is to welcome an instability so deeply rooted that the stupidity 
of self assurance (the state that brings you trust from others and self- stability) can never save you.

Chimera's Song

This is where you will be freed

from the dome of your existence. 

This is where you will stretch out your heart and lift off the land. 

First you will cry tears of fire and love and hate,

with sobs so powerful that the earth will tremor

beneath your weak knees,

Then your eyes will be sufficiently washed,

and you will be purged of the heavy breath that lurked

in your lungs for all these years. 

Digging Through Darkness

To think

your way into the rabbit hole

digging

deeper and deeper with no foreboding

of what lies on the surface

and you know you have abandoned

the realities that exist above

in order to burrow through darkness,

solitude,

lifeless and directionless at times

and you continue to dig

your arms get stronger

as the earth collects under your fingernails

it cakes onto your knees

and you imagine that if you happen to

come across someone else

while you are in this place

they will look at you in distaste and turn away

the solitude of this journey soon weighs on your shoulders

and your digging becomes much slower and tasking

the strength of your body no longer can pull

the weight of your dragging spirit

and soon you stop  

and take a long rest.