Tag: writing
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writer
I’m slumped on the keyboard Drooling, god forgive me lord I’m on that William Burroughs Huffing red poison spuming Like carcinogenic spraypaint From a rent DDT canister Approaching the cockroach Unstuck following ley lines through insect time.
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Judgement on the temple steps
He says to those assembled “See, how his lance’s handle trembles! Even at slaughter’s door He grabs the temple altar’s horns.”
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Riverbank burial
Swift end to a thankless life Rank bonestrewn midden of the Blanka-like Avanc Without anger or undue disgust, I dismembered your flank I bury you in the soft fertile mud of the riverbank That which stinks overmuch, and cannot sink, I stuff in sacks Parts of your gouged back I distribute, feeding you to the…
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She’s here again
Eye’s esteem Sight of adoration utmost You are ambitious as forward-thrusting Thutmose For whom Ra brighter glows, favourshowing Crawled from the void Or hell’s sawloud forge Whose emissions rank rising furious scented Durian She dream walker Mute beholding with corvid wile She Beatrice upbraids and uprights me Her gemmed voice, gelid as Hyperborea To life…
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Red kicks
Hooker back from Oz wearing red shoes I’m across the water like the Red Jews Teasing answers from the Pentateuch I release what’s pent up beneath my thatched roof Rafters bent where I tied my noose Red mouse where I hit you with a head kick Red wrist where I carved a glyph with my…