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The Guardian

Mark Fleury

A basement apartment, sweating out the addiction.
A fever, on the verge of breaking a Demon,
Stoned and screaming, although there is no one
To wake up.
A window shatters in the opposite direction
Of the search, through celestial darkness,
For the end of the night
And the end of the scream.

As the sun rises an owl descends
Over a field of blowing snow,
Where the cloudless sky defines
A leafless tree.
Landing, he is a wolf: fur wrinkled
In between the eyes, teeth glistening,
Growling and ready, from a separate
Point of view, to attack.

It’s the place where darkness ends
And the mind, that is free will,
Must choose: innocence or madness.
Huddled against the tree, the wolf has transformed.
First the shadow is seen.
Then the embodiment of dualism:
The perpetually agreeable, slow-healing Angel.
The Face,

A tangibility pervaded by half-flesh
And half-dream, and pained by the shrill
Brightness of ancient grief, is childlike,
Wounded and bleeding from a violent struggle,
Only as important as Life and Death,
Between where one is and where one
Wants to be: to merge looking within
And looking without.

How quickly The Guardian heals
When the struggle is over! The slow lifting
Of wings, transforming into the wide open,
Eternal instance of Light.



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