Tag: poem
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Ice
Cessation of solar regency Reigns in age of ice and frost Relics of clement epochs, infrequent in long time Stark against snow bleached mattes Vexing for new primitives, scratching their bone caps in performative puzzlement
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Ward
Waking Curtains sweeping, ineluctable fulgent disc’s bombasity, squinting Sweet meat smell like pineapple-fucked pork Nurses fostering instruments in a bowl tray on wheels Big hall without partitions, can tell by the roof, gymnasium maybe, no hoops or icons of vigour Images of consecrants, newly hanged Lime coloured soaps dirty from the last man’s mawley Prints…
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End of Days
Ezekiels battering the Earth Lucifer’s light the second of heaven, flushing night’s cheeks with flowery shelta Riven with age leaking molten ichor Gloops of sun sweat sloughing Great scyphozoa of fire Like a scalding big top Things immovable under universal laws, hardy solids Reduce to bubbling heaps Shattered facets argentify the heel cutting ground Glass…
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Cathedral
House of God Exhibition of glory Sample of ambition Statue of might Deviser of ways Dream of Solomon Belfry of the Seraphim Stable of productive mares Library of timeless oaths Undeniable lightning once fallen City spanning shadows Spiked turret shadows tossed like oil in siege relief Casting rooks along cobbles Pulchritudinous oak invoking spires An…
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Psyniper
Gunman peering out from the attic windows of my mind Barrel trained upon the station platform Train barrelling along tracks, his trained barrel stationary Platform civically politically, platform busy in train suspense He dims the lights, trainlights stark in darkness highlighting doubles Place of completed journeys, Zeus of disembarkation Delighting in alighting flighting toward the…