Excerpts: Alpha Space

 

Excerpt from "Wanting to Build"

Use your tokens for admission

To the House of Truth and Lies

House of elegant concision

Where Poetry once dwelt, and

Love looks not with the eye

Here you’ll find words

To re-make speech,

To repair its sense and sound

Words like shards

Lying on the ground

Build a tower of language

From the cast-off words

Build something new

Even a House of Cards

 

The House of Truth and Lies

This House Full of Love

This House without a spy

Where Love looks not with the eye

Finite, created realm above

Usual suspects heart and mind

     

Here neither sight nor sound

Can make sense any more

Of a house without a window, a door.

A house that’s dematerializing

A disconnect

You know how to resurrect.

Be careful! don’t cut your hands on the words

When you gather them up from the floor.

Rebuilding, you see, is up to you

Of this ethereal House of Wings

Make a solid place,

An Alpha-space

For living words