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KASIM MASTERS

When Alone


When alone, the universe
your companion becomes,
when in company or attached,
the world narrows,
to just that person;
why then be tied down
to attachments, and
narrow down the sphere
of cognizance to a few,
when the whole universe
can be your domain!

To be alone, is not lonely
to be, but in the company
of the self, which in you resides;
loneliness comes only, from
attachments made, which
when they wither or fade
leave a vacuum, and thus
make one lonely to be.

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BEN PASSIKOFF
Incident at Bowling Green

Early in the hour of birds you were standing in my stare. Seagulls in temporary choir circled your silence. Othering sun polished your newpenny hair. Boats in harbor intoned the total mourn of cracked French horns arranging air while our saluting neurons twitched in sync. A leap of lightning arced our eyes. An ululation of two lobo solitudes. An interval of sperm, and birth - - - - and then the gonging of the boats again, and sauntering of pigeons. And shoes and people. Full-time bodies and the hang of clothes amid the corporate spires. The stir of hurry, noise of money, and the choice of morgues. The moment closed about us like water.
copyright BEN PASSIKOFF
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from HIDDEN HOLIDAYS watching skies day and night clouds and not through striped squares clicking like broken film following rail rhythms no time for rhyme -JH