Tag: pagan
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Dust Turner
Ass like Anasazi petroglyphs, hand print after print Turning archaeological remains to dust, leading Glanton Poems weren’t moving the needle cashwise, moved to scalping I don’t mean that I’m holding tickets for whatever gig you’re hoping to get into Judge Holden, I’ll judge you and I’m always holding Eight years writing, tireless thankless scribing, 800…
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King of pugilists at prayer
Bait a jab, dip Clasp hands behind hips, lift From Keramoti to Thassos, boxers by dayglow go to heroic groves Clove-scented, seated on cloven stone cloven-footed one’s throne Overgrown with old foliage, foliate head emerging Flaxen hair a chervil mound, summoned by Amergin He most unservile, rilled nubile verdant Dante rootcheeked Atlantean Lord of leafed…
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Tara of the Kings
Smoking joints in the trenches surrounding Tara Barring Yank crowds and cawing crows no sounds Snakeless pre and post-Patrick, Catholic mythmaker Using shamrocks to illustrate Christian hat tricks Patron saint of patience waiting on eighths High samhraidh on Tara’s hills, Dowth-surrounded Bizzarre visions, ancestral visitations, cognitive invasions Solar placement, erection without precedent We see them,…