… of endarkenment.
By J. K. McDowell.
June 2017
Enlightenment, malignant in its damp blindness.
The water oak rots from the inside, out of view.
Somewhere a poem mentions my endarkenment.
Impossible things before breakfast? Try three key
Limes squeezed into a Japanese cold brew dark roast.
Taste, now you know what I mean by endarkenment.
On Thursdays, I despise my imagination.
Sometimes the week recovers. Savor the holy
Trinity of herbs and scents of endarkenment.
After supper, we talked all night in the olive grove.
The denials stretch centuries past the cock’s crow.
Jesus taught me a lot about endarkenment.
James, you could lie and say that demon claws lead to
Your bleeding arm. No one believes a poor manicure
And nervous scratching leads to endarkenment.
The storms test our limits as failures fold around us.
The death of a school chum stretches our mortality.
Disenchantment comes with the lack of endarkenment.