Category: Filí my pockets
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Psyniper
Gunman peering out from the attic windows of my mind Barrel trained upon the station platform Train barrelling along tracks, his trained barrel stationary Platform civically politically, platform busy in train suspense He dims the lights, trainlights stark in darkness highlighting doubles Place of completed journeys, Zeus of disembarkation Delighting in alighting flighting toward the…
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House of my face
House of my face Sun facing dormer of the brow Refuge of my mind’s Defenestrated tongue Rind hued fires rust windowglass eyes Sun facing dormer of the brow My gothic mind is not a house of divers sprites rare Queer squamous roundbacked delights live not there One ghost lives there alone
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Escape
Phantom halo of slipped gallow’s rope Pink girdle around the neck Merriment and mirthful mouthings Drams of Scottish whisky The frame’s shadow like a crooked back Unfouring his legs’ atrophied muscles Removes his gold corona, tosses it away Three fingers caress empty eye socket Circumference of aperture a cave mouth Cave where fire is born…
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Conflict
Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…
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Dawn and Court
Moon drawn down, dual dawn Quicksilver basilica Alabaster pate Below, hydromania Selene’s suitors crane to meet her, crashing and pushing and collapsing Eärendil with pleasure differed awaits the dischargement of her heavenly duties Myriad dizzying rotations dormant, laden impatience Listless, languid, She shivering shimmering Winter queen, White stripped bone bleached none of green, whims of…
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Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives
Old Troy of the DMP Old Troy a ruin, a heap Middens where stood temples, among motionless flagless priapic poles Ropes pulled down the stone sword of Aries Broken on the broken flags A millennium of shards Stone flood spreading outward across the floor Across the world a milipedinous avatar of concrete twists itself Bookbinder…
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90 most haunted angle 90
Magic is like a mushroom One head before thine eye Scarce belies abundant bloom Subterranes, fearful sky One million unique crafts Cults of infinite variety Masterplan master’s laughs Engulfed flames the piety Piles of hewn noses Cleft to spite faces Red paint reed raised Moses Death these vile places Erase thereof traces Multitudinous as the…
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Unvision at the horror inside the nursery
Ey on peakcapped driver slows his horse Swan robed medicine men bind Fenrir Mangan and Clare penning degenerate tracts A hole in a French wall which anarchic revolution miraculously sweeps by Therein the imprisoned Marquis secreted his manuscript Miniscule its script but gargantuan its sordidness Uncouth clergyman keeps a copy of Shakespeare Love who dares…