michael aaron casares
|  | 1. Mists of Arkansas
Passed the misting cotton
veils, thinned beneath the hiding trees, there is
a river stretching vastly here to there.
Home to Brinkley for the day, different customs
for similar ways and quiet on a Sunday noon.
People sitting in their fasting blue, pronouncing words
as strident skies and awake for curiosity, unlikely
to dissolve or quiet, but mannered happily either way.
What can you say in another place, where the unknown
lies out passed your way? Where are you then if you
cannot make amends? Are you forced to see the wake
of absent nothingness? The void that you create,
absent as a rowdy child, may bring you things you do
not want. Taking heed with softer words decisive to be positive with
no fear behind your worth, saying prayers not always worshipping
but wishing well inside your voice, a void is a hole left to be filled.
Nothing will cease to exist if you think about it, so hold your shovels
and begin filling with this dirt and fulfilling our foundation over this
new found nothingness. I have faith in you, and I have faith in me.
What more could we ask for?
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