Up We Go

Pieces of environment,
complex associations of power,
though neurotics sometimes
in perverse attempts
to communicate
with other worlds,
times, and beings unseen.

This brain is a firetruck
on the scene of the fire
slow to process to a
quick happening like fire,
but an appreciated industry
never-the-less ...

Like a dancer heading
for stage's wings,
spinning around inscrutably
making invisible corners,
shapes, and visions appearing,
bold and beautiful ...

Perceived in exploration
while wrestling gullible senses,
brain intensely seeks contact
The dancer now behind curtains
collapses in exhaustion
on the floor.


Patrick Darnell (1975)