Alchemisland

You in your feelings, homecoming parade  Holding Gatorade to get paid  Golden belt, plaudits, the prizes of pain Rain rain go away to Spain, day after day Splash-streaked panes, my casement looks out upon the grange’s range My deranged rangers are trained to cultivate hay and culminate invader’s Lives, I blaze more than Northern Sky,…

Get in the cage with me Get the worst cut in UFC history Tale of the tape said Blistered heels All bluster, from you not a whisper To a scream, replaying the strike on the big screen Getting interviewed about fight camp on TV Weight plates like someone finished the free samples Askance at your…

Deliveries, delirious milkman in my livery Serious about misery  Garda doing cold calls door to door, asking about me Sure I know him, mister, he’s Ninety percent demon Spent most of the weekend on my knees Blood-signed deeds assure the success of my dark deeds My illegal needs breed in squalor, praying to be freed…

Rhythms, divine missives disguised as idioms Moonlight drive scanning skies for strange pilots On the fringes, in the shanties where prideless ephebes ply violence On the streets, a fly tipped fridge, a dead fox’s flyblown remains Flipped car’s wheels spinning in the roadside ditch

My mind is full of scorpions, panic, manic Haunted house, chains rattle in the attic  Something bounding across the landing The hunched static of a once-hangman Swinging, old gallows, taut rope sound near the top stair Tight holding the bannister, staring up into the dark area Dark arias reaching tenants’ ears, been a tenant years…