深夜貓薄荷神秘著色簿

Fugue on a Somnambulist

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:40:51 +0800

All the familiar devils
So far so close and far too close
You hide and seek
In the sac of darkness
The cul-de-sac of sleep
Shadows file past
None stays and none goes away
Oh yes they are so familiar
They void and people you
On a first-name first-person basis.
Across the remote numbness of the night
Blows a possibility of landscape
Where luminous pebbles, faintly, of words
Trail to or from something out of nothingness
You close your hands, your eyes, your nonexistent tattered wings
Fossilizing and dissolving
Into sand dunes that shift and stretch
Into hour after hour of drifting, minute-by-minute
Into the indifference of pain.

Object of

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:34:54 +0800

Let me travel the width and length of you
Finger by finger, lip by lip
Let me learn all the scars and signs
The tight tender taste of tongue
The sandy smell of sweat
Every move synchronized, every sound,
Every last nuance through the night
An undulating mountain of possession and obsession
Solid and warm
With eyes closed and wings open
You drink me in embraces
As I breathe and memorize you
Into a tattoo across the heart

(05/11/05)
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Smog

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:32:38 +0800

Black nothings stand and stare
Enclosing foreclosing me
I see you and I don't
Tried to speak, ended up unsaying
Tried to feel yet only touched
You see me and you don't
What's left to know, this
Thickening sickening hide-and-seek
But to grope and to sign
Wishing you or I would find
Before it all
Turns grey against black

(05/05/20)
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In between

Mon, 29 May 2006 17:58:22 +0800

Epigrams
Are dangerous
Because they are lazy

Now that line
Was quite undesirable
I wrote with my mouth full

There are times
You want to

But can't

So you sit down
And

And we honestly do not seek
Nihilism
Then what else is (or was) there
Except for this?

All that glitters is not gold
Neither is all that is silent

(04/09/17)
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Physical

Fri, 26 May 2006 18:10:26 +0800

This house we live in
Is fraying at the edges
The secret leaks and short circuits
Can catch you unawares
There are some who suddenly move out
Leaving no forwarding address at all
While the rest of us try a bit of
DIY maintenance, seeing
Traces of betrayal on the painted wall
A shooting star may crash through the roof
And let in pain and panic or a different light
But leave me a window to look out of
A window to constantly clean
To witness whatever passes by
The house that we live in

(04/09/02)
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Afterglow

Fri, 26 May 2006 17:35:13 +0800

Your limbs are gentle moving mountains
Bedsheets a shifting contour map
After the ball lightning we saw
Silence breathes
When we were phantasmagoria
When we were one and none
The how's and why's were forgotten
Now they lie aside, asleep or awaiting
In the afterglow of love
My lips grow transparent
As the tsunami fades
Fireflying on moon-pulled tide
Soon darkness will kiss
And seal our monologue dreams in flight

(04/06/16)
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Out-of-body Experience

Fri, 26 May 2006 17:23:08 +0800

Cocktail cookies cucumber sandwiches
A potted plant in place
Time ticking tic-tac-toe
All impeccable and indifferent
Why am I here
Why are they here
Why did the Beagle go to Mars (and fail to land)
On Mars there used to be water
So too in my water glass
In the end it is a piece of plastic lemon
Demonstrating smiley autopsy
Why is everyone still here
Oh we really must do this more often
The copying of a copy's copy
If it isn't here
Then it's there

(04/04/26)
（可以參看：〈離魂〉）
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Sailors, Soldiers and Prisoners

Fri, 26 May 2006 17:03:33 +0800

We pray that we will get there
But so many never did
Drawing at the cards dealt
Looking out for the map of old
Not knowing it will not exist for you
Come rain or shine, wind and fire
Ghosts of places with a name
And yet we sing on
For no one remembers
Only those who think they do
Where, why and who set out
Only vertigo remains
Of a jigsaw puzzle that took too long

*標題和第一句是一個夢突兀結束的地方。

(04/01/13)
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Transparent and Almost Visible

Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:26 +0800

--an exercise for x, y, and z simultaneously

One day you come to realize
That with some calculations you could
Swim from Pole to Pole
Without leaving the bathtub
He, for instance, takes his walk in a pool
To prove his point in the paradoxical futility of being
I have, on the other hand
Grown tired of these goggles through which
We see each other
But it's the protocol
The distance of deflection
Of something transparent and almost visible
What's between the two faces of a page
Or from the fruits in a wine bottle

(03/03/04)

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To Be Exact and Futile

Tue, 23 May 2006 23:26:19 +0800

Imagining death I try to live it
Imagining them I try to get away
Imagining me I try to
Separate the skeleton from my body
Or the words springing from my forehead
A bad and difficult birth--
A new day promises to
Break in the long blink of an eye
Yet is never here
Only a cat's shadow passes
Like a breath
Through the lighted square of the window

(02/07/31)
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