Timid Opacity
*original poetry* **featuring the [art of James McCarthy](https://www.deviantart.com/tolkyes/gallery/)**
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I.
under icy shade (ceiling forest, day fragments melt ) columns of bark holding up walls from crumbling [termitic fodder: eating antsy ] juniper sap I coalesce berryessence suspensionII.
No one's request I honor calmly With a narrative Of crawling fragments. They want a love story, Refusing love's glorious arc To bask in warvision, Unable to perceive. Since the world revels in shallow darkness I give them flaws so cravèd.III.
an element,
—another.
their intersection,
their essential unity.
{centuries
of wandering,
planetary paving.
grand vomiting cities,
passages of stone & ink}
vapid religions,
spurious philosophies.
absurd tenets
held from a raveling rope
(piñata
from the cumulonimbus
palace
)
The world is
a bold transparency
forgotten
by mankind.
Poetry written By @d-pend 7/1/18 ..... Oil paintings By [James McCarthy](https://www.deviantart.com/tolkyes/gallery/)
**. [I: "The Old Ones"](https://www.deviantart.com/tolkyes/art/The-Old-Ones-399943629) [II: "Stars and Snow"](https://www.deviantart.com/tolkyes/art/Stars-and-Snow-193061356) [III: "A Country House Garden"](https://www.deviantart.com/tolkyes/art/Stars-and-Snow-193061356)**
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