Tag: fiction
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Barnacles
Your enemies must think you useful, they must think themselves close friends You must always be in the state of remembrance, so deep you get the bends Where a cardinal plots his zucchetto my bay fringe flops across my forehead like a common comma, like the sloping tattoo a tide slops on a golden bay…
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Prying Off The Boards
Reveal of day like a long-sought, long-thought breast unveiled I seek only completion, a quest to fetch you We apes cannot help but lech near you, wretches and curs for and before you. Four of me before me Glass backdoors light-invaded populating like a cinema screen First one, no cuckoo’s nest Next two, towers ring-obsessed…
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Violent Death of a Corn King
He is seized by seizure, his sense censured by tremoring His voice tremoloing cries help, loathe the fallen triumvirate Caesar must be assassinated Insinuate his flank with vast slashes His wet sashes sanguinated, soaked in essence Horribly unpleasant business, host of senators bent over him Runnels his heavy blood tunnels out across the senate Power’s…
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Act On It
Ex-wing like an altered angel No such thing as EX ANYTHING Once and future king of the swingers all, disgruntled VIPs Reached a stop, shared some slop, now two’ve got HIV Thoughts are fine we relax with em Any action man’ll get axe ridden. I bang the gavel and break the law Your nose unravels…
Alchemisland 