the tipping frontier
today’s push back against chaos
was walking two shoes
back to their closet
upon waking,
with them,
waking them,
waking into the world where
everything has its line
each line a path
every path a path master
<path finder>
until we grow this
map of veins
that informs the day
so like and so
unlike
every other
till
the way we spin the planet
splashes back on us
<and>
we go be us.
we go beyond.
effect once removed
I ran a cranial IV to AI
dripping ideas back down
like ping pong
against the wall
set somewhere out there
in a cosmos
of my own creation.
Who but us, we,
will read all those words
forming the mother and father myth
of blue pill, red pill.
We sign up as
kamikaze artists
seeing creation
as an end point,
birth, via transistor
kissing only what we are not now
midwifing
the next.
gardeners of karma
you said drop into the puddle
my puddle
as though we could pass something
torn from a dream
like a Frisbee
my hand to your leaping mouth
itself a mausoleum
for masterpieces
marred to a mortuary of moths.
We fall, portal to portal
shuffling set pieces
like kinetoscopic shrapnel
of our lord whimsy
in this lab of synthetic
discovery
seeking only ourselves
as some eden-head
in an erector set
of ribs.
An apple, being:
where do we play from here?
We play thru.
We play again.
We play to win.
Kessinger Mark
Mark Kessinger was born in Huntington WV, attended college at Cleveland State University, lived in Oklahoma City and now resides in Houston TX. He is a two year recipient of a creative writing scholarship from CSU, a founding member and president of the Houston Council of Writers, and former editor ofVoices from Big Thicket.His poetry has appeared in many publications and four anthologies. He is the author of 'The Book of Joe' and 'The Exploded View.' See TheKesssinger on Patreon for Twice curated Poetry.
Author of:
- The Exploded View, published by Cleveland State Press.
- The Book of Joe published by Cleveland State Press.
Contributor to following anthologies:
- From Both Sides Now, edited by Phillip Mahony.
- Inheritance of Light, edited by Ray Gonzalez.
- The Longest Possible Light- Voices of Cleveland: Bicentennial Anthology
- Enchantment of the Ordinary, edited by John Gorman.