Tag: creative writing
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Alcmaeonidae
Last of the noble Alcmaeonidae Vestments priceless purple dye Dying heirless and airless beneath the careless sky.
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Arval
My dash supersonic I cast out like a whipling, full length Water cup on the dash rippling, tyrannosaurus rex Donald Gennaro on the humble office, ripped in half Malcolm’s crippled, he’s a chaos guy, future crypto wizard. Hard lately like bread gone stale Danny Dyer type, never gonna die What would do what do you…
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Making purple
Fastgoing my fixed feelings unendurable Fastgrowing my addiction to that miraculous admix The drugs don’t work, a cat on terra firma chasing birds soaring skyward My bleeding feet squash ten thousand snails into a wooden bucket Shells splintering like calcium carbonate true crosses Sharding themselves underheel, ceramic urns cracking hitting sedge Tossed overboard by Phoenician…
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Red dream
The Mersey turning red in Jung’s dreams At last throbbing rubedo of neural alcheme Schizophrene hippocrene by litre, deleting swathes of me Insisting void upon trackless maps, pathless impassable Seed of He divine nonefiner who wrote Ulysses Diver descrying pearls divers, alas his daughter downgoing drowns.
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Town Drunk
One among us 32 rungs up Jacob’s Ladder Rum-drunk gin junkie in sulky cups, his sullen sulcus sodden A silenus in wanton His ruddy complexion a lumpy, bumpy skein of dinosaur hide Trapped in the Montana Sand Sixty five million yeas before Christ died, lying waiting. His tapering nose alike an awl Encompassing his own…
Alchemisland 