Tag: poetry
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BOCCACIO SCENES
Hedgerow ceremony, held in edgeland behind lover-planted meadows Woodwose-attended Woodland wedding see the Huntsman’s wife wedded Princess who divorced wedded husband removing her hennin for a headman stole her heart ahorse.
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Propaganda Prior to Actium
Octavian the reverenced, not yet August Hush descends when he ascends the eagle pulpit, eagle blood pumping Dilating pupils highlighting pool blue eyes, perfumes lies: “Octavia sports roots Roman as Remus Her blood follows regal routes teeming with Romulean energy Her ancestors all conquerors whom fettered Gauls with palsy-blue tattoo coverings were brought to grovel…
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Rolling Crown
Sons dethrone fathers Slathering over thrones Would not trust, throw further Testing on unregal heads the crown’s width.
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Nimrod Takes Advice in a Thicket
Sarcastic mass delivered in a thicket, like an unexpected infant A wicked defrocked priest defiles hosts Summoning evil ghosts who talk of coming flood Of drummonds struck as signals in Heaven, heard throughout the Levant Nimrod speaks, “I will smite God, drag him down to Earth and have him live among my starving bitches Carving…