Friday, July 11, 2014

[Uncategorized] - Here I Am

Suicide is the only endgame of the sane man.
When he is confronted with the sublimity and vast immutability
Of a dispassionate clockwork universe
With a whirring hub of perfect motion
Its infinity of tiny whole machines on the periphery
And the lesser infinity of tiny broken machines just farther out
And sees those machine attempt repair,

[Canvases] - Candle

One of Five

Look now, this one’s name is Candle
And she falls like the ground is heaven

She grips a spear that she’s named Sulfur
Named after blue fire and a dead brother

[Prompts] - Daddy She Said Daddy


"Scary poem, all in couplets, rhyming or not." - Ted Wilkowski

Daddy She Said Daddy

Mommy stopped moving after Daddy threw her on the floor
Daddy kept walking away after locking up the door

Daddy she yelled Daddy please hurry open up the door
I heard Mommy’s head crack when she fell down on the floor

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

[Canvases] - Salt

I. Canticum Constructum

        here the open and the enigma

She walked within candescent Nautilus,
Rose the spiral ascending, ere a mirror
From cold sea the sunfire passing made.
Her gaze held narrow unfaltered Eastward,
A one that could but hunger shine as light
Would like unto lithify fragile flesh
And from her eyes a lighthouse beacon flare
That would draw him as though the sun still slept.
       
        and here the villain and the clue