Celebrate the End of Midterms with Nicole Surginer and Carl Scharwath

Tonight I'd like to return to the blog-zine with Nicole Surginer's poems and Carl Scharwath's photographs.

Arches of Sappho

Arched landscapes painted

in prizmed realities.

Beauty locked in the

clutches of paralyzed time.

Frozen to infinity,

a hostage held

by  primeval machine.

An eternity lost

to a faltering compass.

Though bound in chains,

tethered to a heart

ingrained in stone;

Her spirit drifts

in shifting river flow.

Capsizing between shores

of penance and rage.

A timeless tale weaving wind,

fluttering paper doll wings

as words dance

from a faded page.

Shifting time as clouds glide

entranced by the arches.

Love captive in mourning

an ending she cannot accept.

Reticence

I hold my silence in your distance

that you may live peace

In this place devoid of life,

where emptiness leeches

the color from my world, I linger.

Having failed to purge you from my

Blood, the plague of loneliness

pulses a cold I cannot shake.

My heart, shackled to your eternity

sees you in every stillness.

Your face in the beams of an

 early morning moon.

Hears your voice in the song

of a whispering wind.

Your heartbeat in the flutter

of dragonfly wings.

 She searches in endless frenzy,

 thirsting your taste in the fog.

Then in the dread of night,

she seeks you in my dreams.

A lifetime of full moons

and starless skies spent

 captive to her restless pull.

I am wearied from her plight.

For an empty heart is heavier

than a pillar of stone.

 I am trying to find some songs for this evening.  Before midterms I was listening to some intriguing lost albums from the 1960s and 1970s.  

I've found Charlie Rouse's "Bitchin'" from 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXR3Qbniwdw

"Two is One" is the title cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9xYQ6-Pg28&list=PL6M4IVQpDf2lF-AluaIhQSuROy3qIbUkW&index=4

This links to Ahmed Abdullah's entire album Life's Force.  However, I think it will be well worth the listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzRu9Q2Aeto

Back to grading tomorrow!