Leila A. Fortier

~Psychosomatic~

I

Sensed the gray

Clouds and then tasted the rain~

The cumulus effect of your vacuous being~

Through the rapid succession of psychosomatic

Pleas~ I became deliriously asymmetrical~ Steeped

  Into a soul labyrinth of ritual~ I traversed your meridian

For some follicle of truth~ You were a master ventriloquist

Torn from a mystery~ Grazing upon your angular paradox

I fed from the pantheon of smoking indie eyes~ Estranged

By the slippage of your layered disguise~ The result

Of this synthesis only absolute nothingness

…And the point of no return…

 

~The Haunting~

I

Knew not the

Weight nor consequence

Of this haunting~ No fathoming the

Euphoric agony of this evisceration~ This

Severing of self- Inhaled into the vapor of your

Apparition~ Inducted into your holy rite of confusion~

I am but the perfected nothing of your conjurings~ The

Summoned uninvited~ The kneeling unseen of all your

Abandon imaginings~ Cast into your world of quiet

Delirium as the neglected byproduct of some

Unfathomable grace~ This sacred

Void that has become my

Prison of liberation~

Where I am but

A silent

Echo

Of

~

…Your every exhale…

~Profound Unexplained~

You

Come like a

Magnetic whisper~

The vanishing ink of an

Invisible tattoo~ A space unmarked

With punctuation~ Missives in Morse code

Stirring me into inexpressible delirium~ No

Sleeping to be had within this waking dream

Your Kafkaesque vicissitudes tinged with

Mystery~ The limpid luster of the

Profound unexplained

 

 Leila A. Fortier is a poet, artist, and photographer currently residing on the remote island of Okinawa Japan. Her unique visual poetry is the specially crafted formation of abstract designs, often accompanied by her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken performance. Much of her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hindi and Japanese in a rapidly growing project to raise global unity and understanding through the cultural diversity of poetry and literature. A complete listing of her published works can be found at: www.leilafortier.com