Three Miles Deep

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Three Miles Deep
by Julian DeWees

Tremble
Quiver
Synchronistic shockwave
Elated and kind

On the swivel
Architects’ abode
Blood-sweat-tears-brimstone-shy
Rebar-bent

Concrete-bound
Imprisoned and flighty
Delinquent handshakes
With God and satire

To vanquish our sins
For we have sinned
The latter denied
Secret and eaten alive

The adverse
Shrouded in honey
Blanketed by smiles
Dank with laughter

Inward exploration
Testing waters
Skinny-dipped anticipation
Lovers breath

Trusting
Denying
hating
lusting

Comatose actions
Disastrous reactions
Indwelling fear
Cerebral mangling

Light sucking depths
Three miles deep
Gasping
swimming

Never knowing
Up from down
Black
Quiet

Keep swimming
Spine-swept tears
Clawing
Reaching

Pulling
Heart skipping
Ascending
A shimmer

Light
Hope
triumph
Love

Reborn
Gnawed alive
Chewed to bits
Yet ALIVE

2 thoughts on “Three Miles Deep

  1. The descent begins after the line “Inward exploration.” Before that, things are obscure. Then come the outright contradictions,
    “Trusting/Denying/hating/lusting;” oppositions, “Comatose actions/Disastrous reactions;” then disorientation, “Cerebral mangling…Never knowing Up from down;” struggle to survive, get to the surface, “Gasping/swimming,” “Clawing/Reaching/Pulling;” at seeing “Light/Hope;” then being “Reborn” to the murderous consequences of life, which probably prompted the inward descent, “yet” coming out of it “alive.” Horrendous but positive.

    1. The first half is obscure. My mind is scattered yet focused on a point of artistic end. I really enjoyed this one. “Horrendous but positive.” I like that. Thanks for the comment.

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