Oracles & Vessels
Oil on Canvas, 2011
Oracles & Vessels
by Steve Brisendine, 2011
'Internal Drive'- EReview
I. Foretell/Forthtell (Oracle/Auricle)
Each open grave
yawns a prophecy
of sated hunger.
The Earth means to reclaim our dust; it grumbles against breath and spark
and the thumping persistence within our ribcages,
the systole of NOT, the diastole of yet,auricles (and ventricles)
pulsing in defiance(perhaps in denial) (perhaps in please, not today)
against the proclamations the foretellings and forthtellings of beats slowed ... stilled.
Whether slowly, after long seasons,or with shattering suddenness, fulfillment awaits.
II. Vessels within Vessels
Here is a secret, whispered within our veins and telegraphed along the wires of nerves:
We are both container and conduit, receptacle of life and the viaduct
along which it moves from generation through generation through (re)generation;
and within these clay-walled vaults,we carry the seeds of the second chance.