Tag: creation
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The clay stirs
Another voice explaining why When I poise left, some incorrect heft tugs me right Choicelessly. Little need hath my unrequiring life. I divulge to dim the effulgence of my already-gutted sacred fire Ill requires a storm guidance So my tutorless quill feels guided. A chiding Golem-aliving papyrus scrap Inscribed upon the gingered insides Of my…
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Arranging my papers
My small, dainty writing table Knee-height to one five eight. Facade consistent of flaking paint Pained wrist impressions, coffee stains Fingerprint smudges as one finds writ upon the panes of a caged gazer. Adopting strains with ridiculous names to see whether I can coax this Hopeless brain to produce more than stick figures. Out, coatless…
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Sleepasker
After chain blazing shamelessly My unpitied, unpropitiated head lays Dreamscapes egg laden and hex-scathed Of begging bowls, of negative spaces, of taking oaths Of sewn oats, of sold dope, of frailty, of granges, of grey areas, changes. Mortal-folded clothes angel-molded going mouldy in the only stow Maybe this grape haze ganj has me going scatty,…
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Wished eyeless
To be blind the scholar’s fate A polymath now, a Polyphemus later During satyr ages that unmixed wine taker was made glad of undeafness. Hard-ridden eyes in greyness rise, that is age’s tithe. Yon Cannot Scribe who being blind made callous Upbraids his wife who as maiden he praised, now appraised his typist A timely…
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Eggs
I always said I’d have kids With the right person Of course One receives No such certainties All good things Are leased Are courtesies Something in me surfaces when I see her My brushed desire cedar height from seed at her teasing sea’s seething Other ways await By my fleeting cursive; by the lancet sharp…
Alchemisland 