Time staves impermanent;
brackish and irreverent.
Jazz crescendo,
bourbon-soused roads;
I find eternity within your soul
to the tune of dueling pianos.
Opaque infinity across this road:
Aquatic wilderness,
Ponchatrain stillness
divines fidelity of a pilgrim soul.
Cajun to creole,
within the dark eternity
of these southern roads …
Crucible constructs
bartering in existential woe;
for a vestigial truth
settling for unknown.
