Tag: fiction
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Jericho Valley Dog King
Induction into mysteries In three, miseries and mirthful memories triplicate Crone, mother maiden, god jesus satan syndicate The furious sun, o ceaseless tantrums which blood assuages Placated by placentas plus most of a year the Crom Cruach is stained with babies A horse foaming like it has rabies while the future king dashes its innards…
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Long Gone Silver
Cursed as the handhot bread aboard the Mary Celeste Cursed as a pirate’s chest Interned by flintlock kept by cutlass Eager slashes leave bellies gutless Where X is marked it rests. Bloodblurred the pirate’s parrot’s beak orange barely peeks out Only initiates can read my maps, know go west when led south Fewer legs an…
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Mount of Olives
Atop Mount Scopus Looking down at Jerusalem In bygone days them Barred entry took to that redoubt Treating themselves to a painful glimpse Entreating themselves, tears well in wince Atop Mount Scopus. Close indeed to moon in Scorpio Mount of Olives Host of cedar Hunting ground of Demeter A clasped hand bars the door The…
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Belts
Pain abounds from my rebounding knuckles Cringe like someone rewound your fuck up When I rock up, your face a mock up of destruction. Traumas I can’t pass Van Allen belt of my misdevelopment My coffers idly spent Hefty bills seem devil-sent Everything feels pent up My life a book reassembled after blending Mendicant’s bible,…
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Midday Execution
I am to be hanged outside the Tholsel Judged drunk disorderly Last meal no lasagna Not a sausage sandwich Me thinker ordered lozenges No chance the rope spares the tonsils A royal pain in my asshole I have befriended the orderlies Sean, Neil and Sandra We speak twilight language Good hosts to good hostage No…