Polysemic Stupor

II.

Moving toward the mighty visions

the forearm

fighting good and evil

obsessed by both

from all sides

underwritten

with messaging death

.

stark full dreams

veins wound deep

in muscle

19^th-20^th centuries

with all the promise

in music

and results

.

nightmarish stark and full

.

an arm-wrestle bind

Dostoevsky, Schiele and Pessoa

self-portraited heteronymity

stark, full, and free

to battle each self

against its own ideas

and to fail

seeking the hope

.

turning at the elbow

into suicide

bleary-eyed will

and glitz of fantasy

David Foster Wallace

and kin

struggling still

full of stark dreams

.

leaping Lorca

Schiele-selves

inside others

yet not actually

sharp turn at the elbow

strength unto strength

to follow through

.

with one’s own hand

.

sliding over shoulder and neck

(only there to support the head

and hold it all together)

moving on to its description

sketchy self-portraiture