Tag: writer
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Appalachian Mountain Earthquake
A mountain range billion of years old The Irish mind cold to Freud have peopled its forests with voidlings Half things, old kings, horse fish and changelings We don’t usually get earthquakes out here but this one split the ridge What terrible things, ancient a million years before men lived, to whom mountains are midges…
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Water In Old Video Games
Find old video game water relaxing Man, that was peak technology let’s go back to that Vibe mastered, every console had a diaphanous edition My dad bought me a silver PS2, available chunky or lissome Blocky waves and windspray sound Sun upon still waters expounds Expands and rebounds in silver and xanthous serpent meanders More…
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Chimere A Minute
My urge is like something from the stuck-fast back pages of Rochester Bestiary: Dolphin man with rabbit scut, an elephant upon cart wheels, a fish that is hairy A destrier with human hands makes a poor equestrian sportsman Easy to be the best archer when the target is large William Burroughs’ books born moment of…
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Ishtar
It’s Berlin the museum Eight gates separate the great from the dust The eighth adorned with animal faces, graced with sky hues rubies and jacinths Adjacent the golden steps of great temples There is no complacent way to tend an eternal flame The frame of the world, its high lofty domes, made them fine architects…
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Septuagint
Seven pillars the grace of Islam Seven seals the rage of His lamb Seventy seems plenty but not when there’s only seventy left Seventy seven sent heavenward Seven days but before them what word? Seven he made like lion and eight nine A seventh of it is iron Seven plus five spies out of Zion…