Mixing Still Life

He says it’s like sculpting

phrases for the tone deaf,

or throwing out shadows

over hard alabaster

for those short of sight.

It’s also a rigmarole;

all this dodging and burning,

being in two minds over

the trajectory of light

or wrestling with arrangements

before signing off

on the key signature.

So it’s back to the

overlapping of acrid chemicals

& remixing the mix.

Knocking back shots as still

life, while slurring cadences

until tones distill.

Until the light leaks in.

Published by mawherablue