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Adam Fieled
Contributor profile:
Adam Fieled is a poet, playwright, and musician. He
has released two albums: "Darkyr Sooner" on
mp3.com and "Raw Rainy Fog" on Radio Eris
Records. His poems have appeared in American
Writing, The Philadelphia Independent, Night Rally,
and Cake Train. He is currently finishing a degree
in English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Submissions:
On Love

Other works by this artist:

issue 2:4 (literary)
issue 4:3 (literary)
issue 5:2 (audio)

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On Love
1.
W hat is the essence of a too-brief kiss?
The rigor of reaching the thing-in-itself,
from subject to object, chaos to bliss,
our frail intuition of heavenly health?
Our love is not molecules, dumbly colliding,
nor is it know ledge, formal and static
nor is it accident, reasoned and plumbedit's real, meta-rational, soaring and gliding,
felt like an earthquake, bringing up panic,
taking our parts and achieving a sum.

2.
The greater part of love is sacrificeflesh intermingled, tensing and tingled,
this is the secret I learn from your eyes.
Giving my body, knotted, single,
tiny eruptions that come from my tongue;
plunging dow n surfaces, slicking the flesh
thoughtless as leopards or hurricane w indsw atching you shudder, w atching you come,
rapt in the throes of an innocent death,
giving my life to an inch of your skin.

3.
Thus, w e trade in secure oblivion
for reckless reality, messy and fleeting.
Such is the cosmos - creation, carrion,
motions of molecules merging and meeting.
Nothing is lost but notions of self-ness,
hard ideations that close and clatter,
rages of ego that strain at their w allsnothing is gained but a sense of the deathless,
"there-ness" of spirit, "there-ness" of matter,
ultimate "there-ness" that scares as it calls.

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