Wound about like phone cords, Calling for a change “Let’s hang the revolution that broke the older backs,” and stifle every thought. Torn about like plastic bags, that carried all our coins They buy their retribution in masks of vigilance. “You dare to doubt our goals?” Bent about like cordons, secure in their position, They [...]
Category Archives: Poems
Indulge me in my closet of quandry: hamper dillemna or quarries of laundry?
Suit pockets loom, Sportcoat seams greedy, wide-gaping zippers like incisors filed down to daggers. Their inset tongues slaver- drip ichor from folds of silk-linen. Raving for that cowhide- lined parcel.
Roll a seven for the winsome and then mindmap your betters.. Strike applause for handsome. Fresh hewn cuts for the clever! Next fashion the turnstiles that taxi down runways, carve roads for the bylaws, draft bills for the bluejays. And row with the sailors who sing so succinct the barnacle shanties from ballads, distinct.
As a young thrush in first flight, or unsteady lamb down mountain rock… So Nature falls from lofty heat into Autumn and her bed of sunset garlands then galloping on Aeolus’s Steeds, turns north to the slow, transfixing kisses of Frost But, falling, her clouds wreath blue horizons and aires of festival entreat ever to [...]
rewinding in segments the lever gives pause for bold play in the past-times for warding off thoughts memos random to find memos rise to forget and make peace with confusion a tao of loss
