Goldfinch Of Nostalgia
© Surazeus
2025 03 02

When the goldfinch of nostalgia steals his name
with busy awkwardness of splashless rain,
he pours himself tall glass of Merlot wine
to regulate excessive flash of time.
Her eyes pretend to conjure spring from death,
dispersing seeds when bells unwind the clock.

Bright green flows the river, and sand gleams gold,
so Tracy dances in long gown of lace
to feel how urgent waves of untime fold
in tangled solitude of psychic space.
Bare limbs of the special sun-woven tree
lean gracefully over the finite sea.

She summons him with tragic voice of hope
broadcast over the radio at midnight,
concerned about death of the lonely pope
who fries fish for her meal with second sight.
Weird blueness of the alligator lake
sparks her most ancient ancestor awake.

Moonlight fills her bedroom with ghost of words
who gives her cup of secret honey juice,
so she drinks sorrow of eccentric birds
till he drives her back home to Andaluz.
Iberian chiffchaff flutters sun-gold wings
deep in the Pyrenees where Triton sings.

Since he leaves home to wander mountain vales
on endless quest to find the Demon Book,
his trail unfolds in spell of fairy tales
which alters spiral of the warm chinook.
Still Justice searches landscape of her heart
to find secret cave of Truth on the chart.

Forgetting why she walks the country road
toward blazing sunset of eternity,
she asks voiceless God if he is the toad
who never comes back from modernity.
He asks her name when they meet by the pool,
so she gives him newly-invented tool.

Progressive growth of social values proves
fair justice and truth will always prevail
despite how slowly Jupiter approves
project to measure their hearts on love scale.
While he surveils the world of broken hearts,
she puts baskets of fruit in market carts.

Now she will never go to Innisfree
to bury her sister in fertile soil
so her rotten corpse may feed the pear tree
with painful love they earn from bitter toil.
Between two realms they remember how breath
exhibits sacred spirit of the rock.

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Orpheus joins Tracy and Triton at their beach-side resort for barbecue over spring break.

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