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Furtive extrovert
Vermouths, high proofs smell like makeup remover Aloof, at an affected removal from you Little dwindling about my movements A creature at remove, moonful Ever a mover like a stranger to time A wader through air, a graceful soarer toward and around danger Did with iron bar and quivering eye prise apart. The darkness died,…
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Chewing the ear off God
Reproof failed to remove The moods of which they disapproved High proofs in high roofed rooms Hired suits Chugging splutter-inducing Drug-improved Mugs of Vermouth Signs I’m higher than you Home-produced Smoke-imbued sweet nothings Her trusting ear revered my amusing queries Her maroon hair betrayed Irish roots Uprooted during some spudless period The geese who flew.…
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Sessionista
Used a six pack holder To push back my facial features Lend pig facet to eagle-owned nose. By the third six’s strange osmosis Ghosts and codes flowed To my slice-sown glow’s newgrown potency. Dutch Gold ice cold against chrome Barely touched like a Tekken perfect, hurting every time I throw Touched by an angel dust…
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Fuelmeat
His sanctions are conveyed through imaginations So she said Before the cross, drawn by the trail Left by a Christ who bled as he fled, Before she was fed to flames. La Pucelle The pagan splendour of that amazing maiden.
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Judging me
A poem says less than a bed unmade Swearing every other day proves the rule’s usefulness.