Tag: creative writing
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Inside Wolf
Plainsight hid, move big like the sea Commuting to work on sanity an exterior insisting Every second an inside wolf resisting Flashes: faces folding to a fisting, arms outside it’s a Christ ting Invisible like a mountain summit can be Heads dipped Christening, river run meander after a madness flung it out to sea
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You Up?
In a birthday card it’s something trite In my cold car back it’s a midnight ride It’s a horrible daylike night Type of eve that man’ll cop a wolf bite Noises get lost and boys get lost in the wood at night Accounts of old murder, I’m on the count, count dracula Three counts on…
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Intention
When you don’t mean what you say Don’t get what you said What’s important in naked light of day Won’t matter when you’re dead. Cain first and worst cursed Sevenfold avenged his purported avenger Blistered roaming until last comes first Old at Babylon, older at Jeddah. Despisement is the harshest fate Even Apollo reads unread…
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Inheridance
Uranus didn’t like his kids, passed that onto Saturn Fathers give sons unwanted boons; cruel cosmic pattern. Life is a spear, long hard and kills you Life is a short walk to the graveyard you’ll go to Life ceaseless self-crewing cruise Life palimpsest of successive bruise Life endearing mystery, quest for goldsouled alchemy Life like…
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Farlorn
Feeling feelingless, she sags like a cut strings mannequin A framed picture of a happy memory she regrets, never trust a man again A woman’s skin, that woman, thin but far from thin skinned the old workboot Stretching leg to locker, hooks a prayer bead on her foot Pillow at her belly, comfort of mass,…