Triangulate the Frontal Lobe -Poetry by guest author Scott Thomas Outlar

Age/space is a figment

of your limited perception’s

discombobulated reality

       square the vertical

             spiral/sphere

at nine tolls

      from the belfry

   and gasp

         supine

      on a cloud

Hieroglyphs

woven with silken threads

   of encoded intention

the spider’s web

captured

in a glimmering ray

of morning light

reveals a language

of natural instinct

We communicate

with pretty signs

and terrible bites/stings

Rusted bark

hanging stiff

across the limb

(a Rorschach beaver skin)

but this world is prone to cause

fits and fevers from time to time

mind to mind

to heart

to soul

to source

merging to melt

into miraculously

orchestrated magic

at the note’s

peak crescendo

This life is a symphony

musically inspired

by the holy spirit vibration

Bottle the energy

without

fizz or pomp

circumstances

purified

at the

focal point

expansion of

crystallized visions

If you can’t recall

your dreams

you can still

choose to live

each moment

as a lucid act

in motion

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Triangulate the Frontal Lobe

by Scott Thomas Outlar

Bio: Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. His work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019-2023 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. He is the author of seven books, including Songs of a Dissident (2015), Abstract Visions of Light (2018), Of Sand and Sugar (2019), and Evermore (2021 - written with co-author Mihaela Melnic). Selections of his poetry have been translated and published in 14 languages. He has been a weekly contributor at Dissident Voice for the past eight and a half years.

More about Outlar's work can be found at 17Numa.com.