Devon Gallant

Untouchable

if you(watching closely the maze of me)should say
            “you are a puzzle i cannot ever piece together
              you are a labrynth and i am lost       forever
              in the winding paths of your wandering way
              through the strange magic of your spirit at play”
 
i would ask,dear heart,that you remember
the secrets i have shared,the singing star,magical river,
the deep quivering dance of the seas sway
 
for if i am weird strange untouchable unknown
once i shared with you my lunatic dreams,
once i took you by the hand
to where all things are shown
and said,“trust me,there is more than what seems”
as we lept the precipice into a far distant land

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Paris

I wish
I was with you in Paris
and the rain(because it must be raining)
and the beautiful wet leaves around us
and the smell of love and rust on the wrought iron fence
and the joy of wet benches
and the old men and young children
and the baying of proud car horns
and the sweet jumble of the city all around us
and the air heavy with romance and history
and your eyes like mythology,
eternal.



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Devon Gallant is a shaman. His magical spells have been conjured in such grimoires as Bitterzoet Magazine, Misunderstandings Magazine, Carousel and Beyond Borderlands. His forthcoming collection S(tars) & M(agnets) is a blend of chaos magick, pronoia, concrete poetry, and rhyme and will be available through Cactus Press in the summer.