Tag: nature
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World Ocean Day
It’s world ocean day A world of motion Really we are a swaying water planet We are but risen skeins of sunken Atlantis This borrowed land, even its sand belongs to the seas Poseidon considers land a disease It is pleasing to him that his domain is earth’s surcease Tsunamis crease into apocalyptic things easily …
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Age of the Purple Sage
Houseproud only in grim surrounds In prairie houses flux-visited, visitors disallowed, visages shrouded In shoddy barns shotgun barrels like excess wicks trimmed down with a tight-fisted vice grips Roaring howlers teem unseen in the bowerless places, ladles of xanthous sand as sugar on pancakes in dunes and mounds The powerless sun-crazed belly like snakes toward…
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Farm Ferdia
Two cocks in perpetual conflict, farmyard Ferdia His blood unforded in red rivers Affording him not a moment more of life Let that living cock be the cream and crow the dawn His beak steelruinous with oft-pecking, let the bán Breasted hen be his bridebird, bridled by the byre The barnyard and its brazen barriers…
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Garden Foxes
Early just this morning I woke from sleep to see A fox stole from my garden the skull of a sheep Perhaps to Hamlet over, returned it to their keep A trench-veined garden allotment up the street In April and May, all night they scream and screech With child or for a mate, the fox…
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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,…
Alchemisland 