Five Sonnets
artificed/
bent on imposing models to control
ideas in the imaginal collective
mood enhancing knowledge and/or wisdom
begins without idealised or perhaps
more accurately even non-ideal
collective structures offset want of proof
against each individual must range
from sprawling global troubles to addressing
immense & all-encumbering time spans
bridges our science of acculturation
can’t unexplain this impact on displacing
boundaries of populist impression
making good time i'd wish to cite the arts
no longer rooted in our separate minds
mortal/
when current scientific evidence
points to what they all began believing
they had temporarily adduced
certain vague feelings of anticipated
dangers urging on their more perturbing
instincts & sensations auguring
moods less often eased by therapeutic
gestures against the sense of loss
and elsewhereness that fills their lonesome
hours before the onset comes the phase
of phantom ill defined & hurtful symptoms
recur as basal intuitions fuelling
misgivings of a brutal incompleteness
before the onset of more troubling news
parsimonials/
to unify a process that repeats
foundationally sensing their arithmetics
to the small finite quaintest quantity
of unity where one but gives the pair
separates into times distinct yet linked
the fundamentals of their human hearts
unite in what continues to propose
interconnecting endless overflows
the undivided scenes they play their parts
are not just numbers but like bursts of finite
linear thoughts on definite expansive
moments living separately their times
together they each singly calibrate
a hopeful union their stray thoughts constrain
coverups/
a slow but steady growing disappointment
ends today’s expiration date that cut’s it
too fine as the growth rate of unknown fortunes
gained in intractable copped attitudes
querying why not broadcast natural
themes families can readily enjoy
the standard formats of our tailored schemes
ensure the variable costs of fixing
up nature’s colourful kitsch mixes pave
meadow paths laid with pebbled mini rock
royalty images repapered over
year by year what’s easily our finest
primed location for a crime scene footprint
pressed deep into an empty plot of earth
cubicle/
art classics bring diverting creature comforts
enhance the overall experience
each daily task & deadline you embrace
as aspects of your quirky rare persona
showing off who you’re bent upon protecting
the privacy of preset desktop themes
hired young artists hit upon neat flawless
finishing touches just a tad outside
the magic lines a storyteller styles
the mystic creatures known of oldschool tribes
nicely pacified for easy access
colour codes make your desk one masterpiece
of vivid scenes with cardboard cut-out action
& vibrant print designs that won’t wash off
David Jalajel is the author of Moon Ghazals (Beard of Bees Press, 2009), Cthulhu on Lesbos -- which is a book-length poem in Sapphic stanzas -- (Ahadada Books, 2011), a chapbook in Dan Waber’s This is Visual Poetry series (2013), Rhyme & Refrain (University of the Western Cape, 2017) and Snapshots from the Ark (Otoliths, 2023). His work has appeared in a number of online and print journals, including Otoliths, Shampoo, experiential-experimental-literature, Recursive Angel, The New Post-Literate, Gulf Coast, Anti-, Lynx, Mizna, and Eclectica.
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