intentions and preconceptions

First published in 2007

intentions, 

they sometimes get the better of me, 

such that 

my automatic, lie-down attitude, sees.

sees me standing here: searching,

desiring the vastness of the open sky 

(and beyond), yet: 

at each point of involuntary contact,

i find myself embracing the ground, 

and during this disjointed, 

increasingly frantic

(often disassociated)

illusionary dance,

i sometimes glimpse 

the shadow of such unknown wonders,

brush their shape with open hands,

before blindness claims me once more.

such mini discoveries 

(or mini-delusions to the minds of some) 

keep open the bud of childlike wonder,

starving off decay, and

total submersion within the blindness of

societal preconception.