Alchemisland

His eyes the sun’s second home Grotto of purity Dying then when they recline Sighing at that surety Describing vast diurnal landscapes to a child lifelong blind Light climbing an ancestral idol’s ivory musculature Abundance unto a supernature, nations of sycamores Lakes of straightbacked evergreen, needy cedars Like coddled toddlers leaving apples for teacher Eager…

Moving around this flat, from chair to sill Creaking, strained, eyes highted milklike Undeniable disorientation Sensing lost time, even lost mind Feel I haven’t lost mine but most who’ve lost theirs say they’re fine Cognitive and physical decline Decreasing resolution in snapshots of my prime Hair grey as an aged wolfmane By will alone the…

Like my bank balance was less than what it was Selling it like I was destined Places you wouldn’t send a delegate, full of indelicate rascals akin animals Full of odalisques trysting for profit, profligates and whoresons, gambolers On the walls of this place, caked dirt smudged into a resin like an unguent It hugged…

I was on a bender  It was half eleven I’d had twelve hennies  Two Heinos and a half Got sick coming up on that Hacked up the bad, green as gas Chunder chaser Coke and Jack Surfaces began blending  Like newfound yellow Made in alchemical melding, elemental wedding A melting pot ’twas, place hopping  Red…

Pumpkins on the porch  Kids in the front Tortured corpses full of holes Stuffed in the oven Smell of rotten something A slumped form A lump struggling inside a burlap sack Treat or treat you ask  Having tapped my glass Asked I give answer  I am the darkness the cancer  The black eyed shark dancer …