Mark Fleury- Two Poems

Poem as a Precise Measurement of Ego's Defeat

This world's the shadow of the next.
The vibration between them is my defeat.

My brain's replaced by
Psyche as an open window

With an inhale breezed from a Solar Ship's
Inner Door. It tickles my throat

Toward the outer places of my Muse-
Guarded memories, still there.

These places are touched and made sacred
By just enough God fire vision

To separate them into August
Park pool waves,

Soaking with floating poems. Outside
The fence, mind-stones vibrate quick-
Silver antennas. Healing

Wheels circle Pyramids

Until the machinery of this burning
World's separateness is cured
By sound waves of oneness. The truth is real

Memories come from deep within
Their present places, not the past. They vibrate
Through ego's defeat into the imagination

Of the soul-rooted syllables that replace it.

Past's Measure

1.

Thoughts were a desert
Planet of stones. Figures of

Beings trembled in their forms,
Awakened by tops

Of quicksilver antennas
Rising behind them. The machinery thoughts
Became healed slowly, until oneness was

Separated only by Pyramids. Now

Fire in the guts of the earth measures,
From feeling to thought, below to above,

Visions of a real past, healing
Into imaginary forms of speech. Muse's
World adds up to the Inner Door.

2.

Planet Earth's
Outside my 4D Window
And it's wearing Muse's Crown,

Shaping thoughts of Gods into

Syllables of feeling
With fire in the heart

Of breath and spirit, unifying
The world and its separate shadows
Into sentences.



Mark Fleury lives in St. Paul Minnesota. He has recently had poems published in Altered Scale, Clockwise Cat, Counterexample Poetics, Medulla Review, ditch, UFO Gigolo, The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, and others. Mark has a new 2014 book of poetry entitled The Precious Surreal Doorway Opened, published by the Medulla Review Publishing.