Tag: spilled ink
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Smokebars
Around so often, thought I haunted you A spectral presence you felt following you A ghost in the gloom, seen in the moon bloom I’m in the dead bedroom, Molly Bloom Man of fates, I walk into a pecuilar room Din from the fortune telling booth Psychic shouting someone get me a pencil, something’s coming…
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Dambuilder
I feel my heart beating Silence through you are speaking Please repeat Replete with apple trees I, their keeper, this Eden Hesperidean ideal, idyll’s idyll Rilles to vision thrilling, birds trilling in derision of Time passing like the last of the villagers leaving They will flood it to build a dam, the green where we…
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Shitting in the woods
The sound of morningbirds, larks astir, striated barks on stern oaks Druidical drooping weeping willows stooping as if to hear more closely The streams choking from the narrow throat of the thirsty earth Thirty learned owls in parliament and none knows anothers’ name Their gaze a panopticon, the space of an octagon a hawk circuits…
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Violence of cavalry charge
Come to drain the boils of rancid cancer The needle wielding horsemen handsome Lancers on panting horses Coming down a painted mountain Like a flood coming to drown them On the backs of sweating four legged panzers Black breathy sweating panthers, lathered flanks like tough leather Sinewy legs, much rider and ridden faced together One…