Sonnet 64: The Barricades

Behind the silent veils of mind,
electric barricades resist
the sensual evidence inclined
toward a vague and distant bliss
which found will fade by slow degree
to the density of night’s machine,
its silence and its sleep.
And when released from (wondering) dreams
that mind may write, but may not speak,
their text becomes the small device
of being (ruled by dark technique),
the arrhythmic beat that will not scan
the mortal clock that plays with dice,
that consciousness cannot command.

Marc Wiegand has attended a number of universities, among these the University of Texas at Austin and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He has been an Affiliate Fellow in visual arts at The Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy. His poetry has appeared in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn, The Penwood Review, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Westward Quarterly, and, soon, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. He is an international lawyer and exhibiting visual artist who lives and works in the Texas Hill Country.