Photography, Poetry, and Writing by Philip Seidenberg

Connection

Welcome... to my pursuit.
Two human urges coming towards connection,
Division of angles, or...
Should we say from which perspective?

I saw her on my lonesome floating ahead of time,
Stole that moment from the future, then took the oath to make her mine.
I said to myself, "Go ahead. She'll be yours".
I believed it....
 ...and so it is because my word is bond.

She sees me with her friend pretending not to notice, yet..
Her glance is never ending..
As she drifts...
One eye stays focused.

Then... there is the girl that no one sees who's watching me, watching her, and...
A fourth guy watching three.

The setting...
On a boat that glides in the distance floating back and forth before a coastal mountain range,
Forcing thunderstorms to form enormously as the sunlight fades.

Now...

The circle of emotions has been all but masqueraded for there's only two that know the connection that's been fated.

Circle... here it is starting off:

Curious..
tension..

~pause~

serious..
laughing..

-STOP-

Equalize (breathe in deep, hands against ears)..
Open eyes..
Transition into stopping time..

~pause~

Interruption..
wanting rewind..
Fuck!
Malfunction!

loneliness...

I should have this!?!
Ponder..
Risk..
Is it worth it?
Rhetorical question!

Cause and react..
Building force towards affection..

Moving, contact, magnetism..
White light and an empty mind, heartbeat is a chime of fire..
(bump-bum) (bump-bum) (bump-bum)

Drifting.. as diving starts.
It's set,
She feels me; knows my need.
We take a check, but..
We plant the seed.

Underneath water drifting, gravitation.
Forgetting for an instant,
Suspended in an instinct...

MUST! HAVE! MORE!

(Inhale) (Exhale)

Clean now..
Honesty..

~pause~

This is what you are going to do..
Tomorrow doesn't come!
Right now there are NO rules.

Building romantic moments,
Spinning colors in the dark.
The need to find our balance, enacted.

We come into one, a bubble.
Floating..
No world around us,
On a boat at sea, floating..
No boat..
On course, just you and me.

Interruption..
Rum and some untimely words,
Another interference dares to spark then share my light despite my purely accidental verbal absurdity..
GOOD NIGHT!!

The air, it's clean.

We.. are.. FREE!!!

We hold:
The warmth, the feel, the skin of arms, the wind, the stars, this look, we form an arc..
Do we start?
Do we stand still?

This ocean..
Over which this ledge is steep..
This circle of emotion has progressed soooooooooooooooooooo DEEP!
We are this rain..
This feeling..
This blood coursing through these veins..
This force..
We are an abstract art..
Breathing deeper, opening..
Crossing legs..

-OPEN-

Nothing..
Yellow tulips licking..
Spirit..

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~hurdle~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GONE!

Facing backwards..

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~hurdle~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Gone!

Decision.. walking..

~pause~

Comeback!?!?

BIG DECISION

Tip.... toe, Tip..... toe, Tip.... toe, Tip.... toe....

COLLAPSE!

Wait, YES!!!!!!
There it is!

The moment from the past you thought was yours and now it is.
Underneath the stars through metal in a private place stood our doorway to escape.
Every single moment up to breach of contact,
The signifier to start,
A connection that in reflection will never grow apart.
As threads leave body skin stands,
Touching horizontal in our minds we fish, entranced.
Acting..
Tasting..
Sinking..
Feeling weight..
You're luminescence is so wet..
Your syllables hard..
Standing..
Erect against my chest.
Those are my dreams,
Drowning my motion rushing through and out your screams.
Piercing,
Pushing skin into skin,
Taken by you sucking on your fingers redefining what I seek,
What I believe,
What I will break myself against a blade and stand tall for.
What I..

-STOP-

Too much thought..
She's rocking back and forth, forgotten.
Just feel..
Pay attention..
Settle your soul down, believe.
Slow down this mountain sending such a flow down its slope to the sea.
Exploding! Into glasses and hard rock cracking into chards of obsidian,
Everything we are has floated off into oblivion.

This is open..
This sea of love,
We are in a farm that's growing.
This motion..
Moving in a circle of emotion is not measurable.
Just a psycotrope in the dessert real that feels pleasurable.

But.. it comes.
Finally..
SO thick.. and.. SO strong..
The object of this ocean,
An isolated island chain we have been waiting to get to for so long.
Problem.. upon land we discover that the island is a woman and a man without rubber.

COLLAPSE!
Sinking...
Quick sand.. Sink-inggggggggggggggggg...

Honesty..
Rubbing my bottle nose dolphin against your "that's amazing" is an earthquake between our legs as the city council claps for pushing into action...

PHASE ONE!!!!!

(applause)

~pause~

Holy shit!
That moment was beyond titanium words that rip, without remorse.
No more..
Yes... MORE!
It hurts to see you open wide without the right to explore.
Aim for closed eyes holding tight our journey reaches for the storm, naturally...
What's another night upon morning light?

The third girl, waking..
Feels drastically aware of the energy, with all certainty, that me and you have shared..
She can smell your ginger on my fingers as the smell from your "that's amazing" lingers in the air.
AWKWARD hug in our group tired and confused about who beguiled who,
But.. she knows because she wants the ocean I'm in with you,
And he, watching three, wants an ocean with her, but he knows it won't come true.

Dissipate into planning stage,
You have been in demand since that original gaze,
I managed to withstand having you where you stood.
But, now that I now you are sooooo big,
I will make this soooooo good.

Distance..
Time..
Think-ing...
I'm out in Space..
Time..
Think-ing...

Fresh ingredients in hand to prepare for your nourishment,
And an attitude that's confident at the feet of your encouragement.
Come right in, this is my mountain..
Food cooking lavender aroma gathering over asparagus tips touching,
Over taste buds excited moving like water torrents rushing.
Bouncing, room to room.
Room to move.
Cooling down is unlikely..
So.. I refuse largely, not lightly.
Saving that taste between your legs expressing my favorite craze on egg shell colored skin..
Nakedness..
Embracing..
I say it loud and breathe it in.
Pull it..
Take it off..
I can see it in your eyes that you want my heart in your fire.
That is it, that eye contact is sooooo new,
I have never been so complete in any moment as I am with you.
Perpendicular,
That shape gives us our ways... and then to rotation as our eyes find dilation.
Gasping.. (breath)
Contact..
Every nerve served to engage our pleasure that's absurd.
Then... connection.
That look on your face and the sound you make will never be like any other moment that I can recreate.

Fade_____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ...... . . . . . . . . . . ........ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______ into introspection,
Welcome to my pursuit..
Two human urges coming towards connection.