Enviable Descent

Black silhouette floats amid ethereal blue.
Stars, bright, humiliating yellow,
pierce sky; painful radiance.
Pivot of this imperfect human form;
red.
Passion and fury, a sanguine circle,
left ventricle.
Cover left breast.

Matisse's hand, Icarus's pursuit;
beauty, calenture.
Vivacity hides failure encrusted histories.

Three where there were two.
Two where there were one.
One dissolving three; dancing circles.
Actions careless; weave webs. Ignorant struggle.
Blindly, burrow wings deeper, deeper.
Nestle comfortably; new silk sheets.

Blatantly, obviously hung right above our heads.
Right
above
heads.

Below, video games, websites, wet appetites.
Frantic, smoke cigarettes, us; disgust.

We dance in the swirling vails of vast
nothingness
with Paolo and Paris
(not forgetting Dido).
Ignore that which is consumed
with the pleasures
of our flesh.

With him
right above

falling.