_______________________________________________________________________________ \\ / / =====> VacHaus provisionals <===== / / a TNtD (Try Not to Die) drop \\ A Poetry tDrop by Wetdryvac _______________________________________________________________________________ Hive Upside Down March 9, 2019 I arrived from driving city, nearly empty in the day construction diverting traffic, leaving places where I roamed until myself directed, I found the church �� a school of old acquaintance brick and seven languages consolidated at the door �� speaking low we have cast and bronzed our demons, they are no more alone within, all gold and orthodoxy, and children, some my own retuned more happy to this sequestered life they ��d grown where stepping through the halls I saw their enemies enthroned found myself sweat-hauling, antiquated and enthralling a desk in many sections, maple, ivory, bone perhaps I ��d had it purchased with the children here somehow or thieving snuck among the chambers �� ah the many chambers nautilus heart below t ��was there I ��d heard the mimicry like language but more finicky heavy on the tin and fragile, coppered skin restraining nothing a thousand drawers and furniture, all maple laminate and bird ��s eyed rustling within, bustling with welder ��s rhythm, a spark, a glow, a soul here are your children eaten released to undertow where are your memories of making, polished up and undertaking admit no dead, no soft remaking, beeswax and endless rubbing spiral follows rags where calm with well kept tapestries and linen robes of mastery the word began, the human word, to ring the bells, to swell the singing to overwrite with un-forked tongue that precision in the ticking unsure, I left the desk �� a reef, a master wrapped in neutral grief to pay attention better unencumbered, to step with clear incision honeyed nest and sweet revision, dripping layer upon sayer tell ��s toll a hint of imperfection in the sanded casting mold prayer upon the bow and lip, yoked hard restraint has slipping space not quit the spare of resonance, nor repetition in the grievance the missed point of cancellation sealing naught, and freeing gait offset within the walking pace, stepping into otherspace where workers within the oldest pool gathered by their desks and tools finding in unwanted rules, segments of line and spines forever shifting nautilus heart bellows I arrived from driving city, from corridors of matrons, from gods among the children in dusty coat and hard-pressed thought, from languages and language knots my ownest desk and drafting spools pocked and dronal waiting three organs driven by well won leather, a dozen tables brought together, companionable smiling the core that no seal ��s perfect, and curtailed the start is in releasing a curl of weather, a cloud of thought, the bell and prayers but a quark where universe is dreaming, where spark is gap and measure endless treasure nestling, a meal in the pause of wrestling spiry waxes rags and here the erroring pattern, deskater tracked with preservation oiled well and pollinated, tincture marked and pen-ablated surfaces from within itself the golden memory of sun, not metal but of being someone hazed between soft down duvet and parchment scraped of a thousand lays begets a pause, a heartfelt pause, but one can begin knowing nothing with careful strokes of carbon, and if the pattern errs, error in and where the pattern skips, begin, a field of stone before the celestory a hair before the thought returns, a curve of wrist refusing shackles a thousand differences in flame, a stroke too soft returned a line too vigorous releasing feathers, luck of birds and flocks un-levered where child came undone, where careless heart inflamed where murder was simply waiting, waiting in the antonym of given claim spring forth and try again, become the ever-something old pain, old flame, old ways, old name �� know, and pick anew should that be your desire ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: With thanks to the good folks at Hackers.Town for answering the very n00best of questions, with the following people politely [REDACTED]. 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