Sdepan Keshishian: Here again, now: Then

I've gone and come.
An aerial view
of paths intersecting
In fast-paced sequential patterns
of excess dust,
Amidst the rise and fall
of thoughts 
that never quite settle.

When I close my eyes,
Sea and Mountain
Sand and Song,
 feeling_skin 
   -kin to its mountains dis-
   tant wars and seashores
 indivisible truth_fact
    -dispersible ash black
    Camel pack cigarettes
  Inexorable
 by the transfiguration
  of Virtue.

eyes  
  re-
treat 
  to 
 their 
own 
 sha
dows 
 on 
the 
  Face 
   of 
Earth.

Sdepan Keshishian, Boston, 2008