Ochre Idyls

docking in the port
of independence can be
a tricky maneuver

incremental navigation ...

Hamartia, Hamartia, Hamartia!

With that, the fed-up sister ran off to her room. It was hard being the middle child. Never being first at anything like Hamartia always was. Never being coddled and...

A man stands alone
Proud defiant ready
He's prepared
Let's call him Coleman
He's in the spotlight ...

A beauty I thought
So I brought it home
A bushy mandevilla
Bloomy with promises
We wrestled a bit ...

my marching orders
are clear; step lively with cheer
patriot of the heart

Sometimes
I set the controls
For the heart of nostalgia
I lose myself
On the journey ...

Priscilla's new line of Barely There apparel included the return of the stole, a shoulder wrap worn with pride by ladies of distinction, and wealth. The Scintilla. Cries of mink, and chinchilla, w...

Billie Jo's bridge
They called it
High up
Over muddy waters
On a clear day ...

A scream into space
Is but the makings of a noise
The mere notion of a sound
A boundless vibration
Endlessly ...

A moment suggests transience. An ephemeral state, a liminal place of brief awakening between past and future. A moment serves its own purpose. And this awareness of itself, in this moment's notice...

Poetic intention
If there is
Such a thing
Is often disguised
As a vagary ...

Ew, your starscape is lining up all wrong.

My what?

It's like a horoscope but closer to a biorhythm. ...

bamboo stalks green straight
tea kettle centered matted
missing one guru

There are more things
in your cosmology, Horatio
than vodka and juice

looking back at all the nuts
this family tree ever dropped
It appears I'm the only one
with enough guts
to say it's never stopped ...

Something thrives
In this space this
Acrimonious departure
From everything normal
Like the wonder, the beauty ...

In tandem
we find quantum fluctuations
acquiring symmetry
across space, across time
there is a unison found ...

though plain or layered
a poem is a vortex
a single shot, spun

In this room
fiefdom becomes realm
and ruler I am not

with spare parries ...

Charging into the room, he cried, what great susurrus is this?

The conspirators, siezing their chance, lunged at the now exposed despot.

Without his body guards, they rallied. And so the great chase began, ending at the town corral in a legendary shootout. ...

I've debunked your theory, Alfred. Life on earth didn't evolve on its own. You see, there's a fly in your primordial soup.

didn't say anything
to my former self about
how i got here

hearts of fire on sale
prices slashed one day only
get them while they last

I look forward to
when empty becomes hungry
then it's time to write

Like a 70s disaster movie
A nuclear winter had begun
Weapons of unimaginable power
Changed the face of earth
Fools thriving on pride ...

Ship shape, toute suite. Let's move it, people!

Oh, what a taskmaster. Give us five second's rest. Honestly just five seconds. Would it kill them?

Yeah. I voted for her, but I didn't think it would be like this. She was always on the ball, you know? ...

France has a saying
so profound it's etched in cork
C'est: mis en bouteille

There's a kind of sand
Consisting of the same properties
As what you'd find at the beach
An ocean of tiny particles
Packed so closely together ...

They were all fragments, pieces of pictures torn, papers twisted and ripped, their meanings attacked, defaced; but he heard them still, tiny voices he needed to lose, to drown, to push so far away ...

even the finest hair
scrapes against the sunburnt skin
finesse is not less
perhaps abstinence is key
when fun becomes misery ...

Images of height fill me
Of scale and import
I dream in measured
Incongruities
At times I feel surrounded ...

It's such a small thing
A bit of an ask
Not that I should tell you
What is or isn't
In fact ...

Industrious maybe, but I wouldn't say luminous. That's a quality of light.

Like saturation?

Yes. Although luminous can mean "stands out," but you need to be recognized for whatever you're standing out for in order to be considered luminous. ...

there was a time when
to mourn was
a relief
a release
more than just a gentle sigh ...

Fresh mints
slip from newly torn wrappers
thumbed out among the group
they're all the same
no shortest straw here ...

Midnight calls around again
Curtains undrawn rooftops
Bathed in darkness yet
Somehow alight
I turn, toss ...

I turned circles in the shower, emulating the rain, the spray splatter feeling and all its increments toward soaking, with joy, abandonment, myself outside me, the speaker with no words, spinning ...

Bridges hide something
Something essential
I just can't name
From here to there
I get that much ...

Down the Caernarvon Road
There's shops there
For second-hand wear
That'll take you in
Indulge you in someone else's sin ...

And unto this day a daughter is born.

Manny's feet never touched the ground. Not for hours. Some say years.

A baby girl. His first. Fated to be his only, not that he would stop trying. For by degrees, not suddenly, the same strange magic that brought him here, turned dark. ...

narcissus poeticus
innocent optimism
one wraps the other
memory's spirits in bloom
so early sprung, so long gone ...

There once was a bubbling spring
Nature's gift
They used to bring buckets
Bottles, jars, hands to mouth
The water was clear ...

We had talked about lifestyle changes, the doctor said. I'm sorry but the damage has been sustained for too long.

How long I got left?

Six months, a year? Hard to tell. ...

Softly spun song of lies, meant to draw in, then to prise, to keep disguised, let no one know the truth within, the starving light, the withdrawn shame, that double-edged shard of animosity, of ha...

Back in the day, am I right?

Whacha mean?

When I was a kid, the world was all sunshine and possibility. Now it's all dark and you can see the wall they're building. We had progress, day glo colors, double knit suits, and anyone could become president. Guess that last part's still true. ...

It feels so real it almost tingles
There's an extra heart beat
Syncing up with mine
Something's not the same
A ripple, perhaps ...

Watch him. He's going to swan.

Swan?

Yes. It's his thing. Too much drama growing up, I think. ...

Oh you wee little strait
I see you there
We all do
Yes you're wee but also mighty
Slip of a thing, really ...

Morning shade creeps
To afternoon sun
Full on with no relief
Patio containers
Of vulnerable tenderlings ...

He looked down on the beautiful walnut burl, the patina of aged wood once assembled into a writing desk. A tear began to form in the corner of his left eye. He only wanted a bargain. Just for firew...

Geoffrey's new oversized couch was a monster. It could swallow you whole. Sheila, his date, struggled to right herself in it.

This is great, eh? Super comfy.

Not so much maybe. ...

Hello little sunbeam
Come to brighten my morning
You slip past my curtains
To reclaim me
From the land of dreams ...

Little things remind me
Of a life left behind
Not of choice but force;
And that reminds me
Some things aren't worth ...

They look at me and say
Why are you absent again today
If only they could see
All the things I get to be
Even just some of the places ...

Ok, we have your buddy on the line now. 30 seconds to discuss!

Ready.

That was fast. ...

An android staggers down a rain slickened alley, its cortisol levels peaked. A street light at the end of the alley flickers out as the whisper of a silenced pistol hits home. Vision doubled, it t...

Pools of brine
Little more than puddles
Waiting on the tide
To rinse and fill
Settle again ...

There are 139 steps. That's about one hundred more than i need. I go up. I go down. Under heavy branches that smell like Christmas. And alternately through a crispness that blanches. I am a child. ...

No, you're not protective your possessive. Maybe protective of your own things, your own possessions, but she's not a thing, and you don't own her. She's got two eyes and she's going to see for h...

Bartleby program's not working again.

What happened?

Nothing happened. Kinda the point. Just ignores any commands. ...

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She needed help, divine inspiration. Downtown bohemian chic or midtown luxury. Cafes and bookstores with fire escape writes, or the latest fashions with dinner dates and romantic escapes. Anywhere ...

Would this hand not wilt
At the touch to your face
Lovely behind compare
Could this appendage bear
To frame the asymmetry ...

No, despite how it sounds, they're nudibranch, a species of sea slug. Which is exactly why this is suspicious. Why would a beer filled tin, sitting in a vegetable garden, at the base of an inland ...

In the end, there were no winners
nuclear winter sheltered us all
an ice planet seen from afar
perhaps more desirable?
the earth provides, man decides ...

Poaching is when predator becomes murderer, hands dirtied with the blood of protected innocence. The lowest form of predation, it acts surreptitiously, not out of instinct but from greed. The lowe...

In the backyard, George's parents were grilling, along with his younger sister and older brother. George was generally not missed and after watching The Sound of Music alone, decided they all need...

I knew it would be toxic, even from the way the phone rang. Used to it, I guess. This time could be dealt with, without my own anger, without me yelling, talking over, shouting down, insisting tha...

This cabin is awesome!

Well it's not much but it'll do.

What? It's perfect! Very Autumn. Porch, fireplace, freaking loft with a four poster! You don't see that every day. ...

The pinnacled cone of light gave no relief to the sweating face under it. All it revealed was a frightened yet defiant moxy, up to the detective's grilling. After release, the interrogation scene ...

"Narwhal, narwhal
Swimming in the
O-shun"

She has no idea what it means. A childish song, fun and funny in its imagery. But for him, it's a hand reached deep down to the dark place he's pushed himself. The lightness of her repeated notes, the innocence of her tender age. Transforming. ...

Almost everyone left town after the cave-in. The mine, declared unsafe, filled with sea water, and sheered off along unpredictable fractures after the explosion. Some still wait for husbands and so...

how does one walk, talk
its way into existence
whose foundling furrowed eyes first landed
on the physique form
given rise through unexplained ...

down to the marrow
the real meat of the matter
exchange can begin

Oh, you spicy pickled pepper, come over here and pucker up.

Jana's alliterative come-on did tickle the furtive fancy of her future beau, and with a quick flip of the lip, homed-in like a missile ...

corks that hold bottled high spirits tight
ancient gods who strum up mischief
between these two lies me and you
and from each, my dear, we take our cue
to each, my love, we give our due ...

pebbles on shores of distant reach
soothing stones of lives remembered, a dream
a twilight folding two worlds in one
an ache in her core, a split, a tear
and a semblance of fear ...

I won't cry break down or die
I'm stronger than that
and my heart knows how to love
I've been a lot of things
not all I would remember ...

a show of strength
on what endangers least
lays bare the coward

All signs point toward stormy weather. I get to prognosticate because I'm the only one who knows her signs. The sudden chill, the eery placidity, a sort of thunder building somewhere unplaceable bu...

feathered dinosaurs
learning to fly took them years
but mutate they did

protest songs abound
red doors painted with black joy
pink wants to party

last line of defense
devilish details persist
clean break, losses cut

Velocity tearing
Wingspan shearing dive
Into immortality

The greatest of nectars ...

Dude, you caught an anglerfish.

Look at it! So freaky!

They're supposed to be deep sea creatures, not hanging out in the bay. I wonder what caused this little guy... ...

A single red balloon lofting down the street, haphazard, capricious as the wind. It could be the opening scene in a movie, or more sadly, an ending scene. There's a different power in each. But i...

In Barnes and Noble she fashioned a scythe
From a plastic fork in the café
She needed no prompting
And showed no hesitation
Clear and deliberate creativity ...

sunlight dialogue
is nature's steadfast guidance
inwardly turned on

I painted the colors of the morning sky. Brush strokes of cadmium red and dioxazine purple, jagged palette knife smears of hansa yellow. It's violent on the canvas, but you gotta make do with what...

He called it a wraith, waiting in the corner of his room. Then again in rec.

Sure better than the banshee Eleven saw last week!

Seriously, he's scared. He says the darkness wants him. That's all he'll say, "They sent the wraith for me." ...

The familial matrix which spawned the three of us also shaped our proclivities. One's nature was not the others'. The twins were both bent on a vengeance without origin, and I in either preventing...

Fruit, ladies! Get your fresh fruit.

His words were on repeat. Every syllable, every infection. His stand had the reddest apples, the most orange oranges. Too shy, Sydney's passion ran just hot ...

A mother holds her child loose
not with force but with light
through the growing of the night

A cloud slips past the pale bright moon ...

Water stirred swirls
Clear water allows for transparency
In its swirl

Dirty water conceals ...

It's so under rated. A good night's sleep is huge.

We shouldn't even have school tomorrow.

He knows what that means. From the glow of her iPad, she wants to stay up late. He knows what the morning will be like. ...

She called them balustrades
I winced, knowing I'd never have thought that
railings, I suppose, spindles at best
But she knew
She knows the word for the light ...

immunity rhymes with disingenuity
one often leading to the other
for they say there's a problem
with ultimate power
and those on the flip side of that echelon ...

And he shall be called Hiraeth.

What's that then?

Hiraeth. It's Welsh, means deep longing. ...

Johnson swept the area. Only casualties. He radioed back. Moving ahead. In the stairwell, a flash of blue. He moved slow. The day was hot and he was dripping, finger loose over the trigger. He nee...

This clock in the hall
Chiming regular chimes
On hours, half and quarter past
Is the bright sentry of time
The here the now ...

The agent blinked twice. The sign that he understood. Bound and gagged, he couldn't twist or turn. And he had as yet no idea how his diabolical nemesis intended to do him in. With each blink he sli...

I hear your bias
and I'll raise you another
this kind of thing
we can do all night ...

This too will dissolve, the gypsy said. A lark. Renee didn't believe in prophecy, but she was unsettled none the less. Outside the tent, the carnival rambled on, raucous and full of smells, from f...

To all the moms
whose presence
is still felt

The giant wanted to grind them bones, make his bread. But his heavy handed methods might not work on actually firing neurons.

Jack was full of himself. He didn't take into account the sheer physi...

Oh no, this eclipses that, Junior. By a megamile. You ain't even in the right time zone.

Yeah? Well, we'll see when a hundred man army of flame throwers takes on your zombie horde and crisps them...

Robin's fight with Laura was serious. She even said that was it. So he hit the bar outside of town to blow off steam. Texas summers are hot and he was sizzling, inside and out. The stranger scratch...

You can't fake facts like you can feelings. Facts are the genuine article. Period.

Have you read the news lately?

The fake news? I refuse. ...

What's that one from?

Those? He looks at his knuckles. They're the ones I'm proudest of.

They look rough. ...

years away
in lands ago

There lies a sudden pallor
Behind her eyes
A quality of light
That's just not there ...

now now close your eyes hush and dreams will float you by once when the moon was full bright eyes did still away the fronds of thought and so shall you when all the said is done and through this al...

Spandau Ballet wrote a song
I know this much is true
What I didn't know was
It would be playing
The day I met you ...

I got a heart full of sutures
micro cracks and schisms galore
it must look like a slinky toy
and a velveteen Frankenstein
had a love child ...

Susie moved to the sound of her own drummer. She'd been called different before, and that was a banner she flew high. She drove too fast, talked circles around circles, and smiled at everyone every...

Johnny's bashful ways left him time and again on the sideline watching life play past. He would say it was true, life moves pretty fast, but he preferred a slower approach. Then he met Sue. Super ...

I could trace our route into the past. I was the only one with the memories to do it. Data points plotted, that's all it amounted to. A time map. But that's not what scared me. And not the unteste...

What river runs
Dappled, delirious
In constant flow
That doesn't tribute
Its source ...

All movement, ever
Corresponds to consecutive niches in time
They can be strung out and repeated
Through memory's lens
At any time of day or night ...

Ella G, you get over here right now.

Aw, Ma.

Get your scrawny butt over here and leave that boy alone. ...

especially beware
especially take care
of the selfish men who
would diminish heart and soul
to gain it all, pieces of silver ...

Vellichor reigns in confines
Tight
An aisle, a chair
A heady mist of possibility
Swirling, tempting ...

"So you guys are the word police. I've heard stories but have never seen you. I don't know anyone who ever has. And now you're here. You're real. How selcouth."

"This one checks out, Lenny. Let's...

It came from the water, they said. Our team was called in. We had all the equipment. We'd get to the bottom of it. And we did. But there was nothing to be found. An old lake was drained and there ...

Stuffed Islands of Greed
The last play to be performed
In the now defunct
Theater of the Absurd v2.3 ...

Through the lens of time
Her insensitivity became
A form of echolalia

Reverberating ...

hearts tire over distances of time
over differences of place
and will not release without leaving a trace
where yearning once lived
cast hammered and twisted hot ...

Instant karma's a real thing. You see it in parking lots and high school halls. You see it in chameleons and police. Everywhere it seems. But it's got a second trick. Not so obvious as the first. ...

What on earth?

Joey looked up at his mommy. His chocolate smile did not dazzle.

Oh you did it now, young man. Time to wash up! ...

Nirvana is the goal
Gotta get there
Gotta make do
Break on through
To the other side ...

We are tied
You and me
Along adjacent planes
We climb
To stand ...

What I seek, intrinsically
Is always the same
No matter what it is
Or how presumptuous
Or frivolous ...

No, it's brand new. Still sparkles, look.

He hands the ring over the counter.

It's shiny for sure. But can't you see the tears on it? There, and there? ...

Nana pulled her shawl up. The air was warm in the attic, but she wore the shawl everywhere. Georgie opened the trunk and began lifting things out. Nana said something about each. As he held up a wh...

there is a whisper
falling along
this line of light
from dusk's settling
and on into night ...

conversion change
reversion change back
version all for one

I cannot lie
Honestly, I can't
Not without bad things happening
as you can see ...

she sat in fury
soggy toast politics
unspreadable
yet doing just that
cold flame fire ...

Jenny tossed aside the bi-monthly newsletter thinking it a waste of natural resources. Someone would come by and collect her office bin and that would be that. And it would be that if that newslet...

Her soul protest
Would have been defiance
Had she let it out

He scoured the website page by page, link by link. He was looking for anything that might lead him to her. She'd been missing for a week. An eternally frayed week. If she needed him, he needed to ...

It's a toss up today, as it would be on any given day, but right now, favorite lyrics:

"How charade you are."
- Pink Floyd ...

The newly dead don't decompose anymore. They linger. And if they can, they roam. We've had cases of roamers in our town recently. Sheriff has to round them up and return them. They don't actually ...

Once we moved out, the neighbors fought the flames we left behind. I pictured them watching the rear-end of our faux paneled station wagon jaunt its merry way down the road. If it wasn't the earlie...

Back in the late 80s, we used to tool around NE Philly. The Roosevelt Mall was a favorite haunt. Most of that time we just drove with music up loud. My buddy, funny little guy, would come up with t...

Moving into a new house should be exciting, right? Full of smiles and visions of a future perfect plan? Sure, the weight of maintenance and repair is high, but surely it's balanced by an imprimatu...

reverse engineering
garden of stone
ends in pebbles

Kookaburra climbs into flight
Laughing at the unseen stream
Where a sharp trajectory becomes more than it seems
A glimmer, a glint, fast into the light
Prompts madcap peals for no reason at all ...

riots of color
bombs of blooms
nature's promotion

against the will
in crimson clouds
the blush did bloom

This is not the time, Louie, and this is not the place. You're out of line and you should be ashamed. Say you're sorry. He's sorry, ma'am. He forgets even himself sometimes. I'll see to him person...

The cost of sin is death, they say. What they don't say is what death is like, or how quickly it can take over your whole, well, life. Just like that and your answering to another power. I'd a liv...

eyes on the product
as opposed to producer
selling different things

I said I'd meet her in the cave we'd carved out as kids in the giant waratah on the hill. A lifetime ago. We'd kissed, once, there on that hill. So I sent the note but received no reply. I went an...

This segmentation is anything but equal. It takes only the best for you and leaves the rest for me. I know this is something you're not blind to, how can expect me not to see? Redistribute, do it ...

Take him in, take him in.

Mother, the back is full. We need to move some of the 'merchandise' before adding more.

Oh, you worry. You old like me? ...

on consumers and
the evils of marketing
seduce to produce

I do seek anon for favors unto you
None such as trivial, my meaning
Will be clear; exemplar to strive
into that beacon, that sun traversing
eternity on the brightness of thine countenance. ...

In the land before time
There was no water around
Carbon life was still elemental
The spaces between
Were not as dry as they seemed ...

What are those?

Wrath presents.

What presents? ...

"And what of the end, eh? You think it's so defined, set in stone, this makes that and that what you're thinkin' is the only thing that can happen, well, what if you're wrong and all this time the...

Phil ran wild. He had them and he knew it. This chance didn't come around often. He knew he could milk it and did just that. He bolted out of obscurity, ran circles around the crowd, and posed for ...

Where to start? At the beginning? No, too predictable, too linear. Let's just say that because of her past, she blamed everyone but herself. Secluded and isolated, she schemed. Vitriol for love. W...

A waffle pattern
Is not
A honeycomb

Her ringtone was set
To a riff by queen
--Not vanilla ice
It alarmed her of
Her mother calling ...

I used to envy you
There in that house
Behind that fenced yard
You were the ideal
Binded by propriety ...

"It's coming."

"I know she is."

"It. It's not her anymore." ...

Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die
The day weighs light-less
within your eyes. ...

You do challenge
with such ultimatum --
I'll rise to it
but should it be verbatim ...

There between dreams
And the valley of reality
Sits a rock
On this rock sits a man
And in this man ...

In totalis
there is no more
some suffer to reach its peak
paramours to the latency of greed
slopes found slip ...

George covered and ushered Elizabeth inside but birds streamed through the windows. The noise was deafening. The air dark like night, hot and choking. George got them to the study door and closed ...

George leaned on the railing fighting the urge to speak his mind. No, they wouldn't get married yet. Across the lawn, toward the hills, he watched a flock of rooks take flight. They murmured and v...

coin faces Janus
sees only one side of pride
Janus or other

What brings you joy?

Life.

What about life? ...

"Such piety is reserved for the offering, my dear boy. Until then, all life is sacred, even your own."

"All I said was...."

"Stop. I know what you said. And I know you didn't think first. You used his words, verbatim. You even chanted them." ...

Christopher is in his room again
Horizontal and transferring ideas
Through open spaces
In the contours of his mind ...

In the years after the bombs fell, life as we knew it ceased to exist. Forgotten ways, people and places unrecognizably changed. A substitute world, a facsimile, a simulacra pastiching a reality w...

blueskymonday

Death is not the end
Death is not my friend
Barrier to those I've loved
Uninvited divider of realms
Death, hold your dominion ...

I did find you again
Right there beside me
A magic reappeared
To a soul bound in grief ...

You've got to toe the line around here, mister.

Oh yeah, and what if I don't want to?

Then you got another thing coming. ...

Such a rare thing
Dying in measured starts and stops
Fits of memories
Stitched linerally
Consisting essentially ...

Jim's time in a bottle
Is now missing
Sweet dreams
From fascination street
Call me ...

She thinks in concretions
I'm all abstraction
Subtlety, nuance, seduction
Propositions lining enactment
All the shades of grey to be made ...

There goes my hero
just walked on by like nothing
I buoy above
this trail of heroic wake
whisping, wasping, and unfurled ...

Getting the band back together.

All right, man, seismic!

Yeah, it's going to be. ...

So bounce is a funny word
I didn't need to look it up
But another meaning came (un)bounding through
Just this morning, from
The T's to the Ta's ...

What is beauty but a common thread
In a woven tapestry unique in all
But the observer, for within the lie
Of material, deep beneath the skin
Is a light, surrounded by darkness ...

You know that antiquey dealer down the end there?

The one all stuck on 'imself? Yeah.

Well, heard 'e got done over. ...

Blonde ringlets bounced across the hotel lobby. With each step a down bob before pertly rising. Gold Jimmy Choos clicked against polished marble; Chanel purse taking it all in stride. Swift and cle...

The light lit the arid ground like a lantern on the wall of a barn, glowing with deep shadows. He hitched up his horse and started off again, his tobacco juice staining the roadside sign. Bounty ti...

Well I'm out there a-havin' fun
In that warm California sun

Platform shoes
And velveteen pants ...

In suit replete
The waiting, simply stated
Was a numbing feeling
Of life ending and
An insouciant priest ...

Read it, just read it!

What?

The review, the critic! Oh, I wish I never had lunch with him. I exuded strength and charm, grace even, under the circumstances. What does he call me? ...

It's just not normal.

Of course it's not normal, Helen. But you're right, they're really pushing it this time.

Her gaze remains out the window, his on her profile. He can feel her thousand yard stare from across the table. ...

Some ghosts are my mother's
They move up stairs and onto landings
They look to clean, to tidy, for children
Long since grown,
Grown and moved on, but for me. ...

Done is done
There's a sense of simplicity there
The truth is usually simple
Smugly assured in the right hands
Until you question it with ideas ...

Whatever happened to tradition?
A line echoed by Zero's gusto
From all generations past
To portend love across barriers
Of time, circumstantial navigation ...

Torrid, rampant
Insatiable...
Unquelled, redolent
Spectacular...
How do I describe this sensation ...

Strange word, desire. Bright yet elusive, so often unsatisfying. But with desire riding high before him, Vernon picked up his lunch box and headed to the construction site. He'd see her again. He ...

Quite the sermon today.

Yes, an inspiration you might say.

Oh yes, do please. ...

She used caution at the turnstile, surreptitious looks in either direction. She was alone. At this time of the morning, the walkway was always clear. She had planned well. Her testament to him woul...

They're indivisible.

They're what?

You know, like the song? ...

How long does something
stay radioactive
How many memories pulled
crackle with the same energy
still ...

so rarely put on
compassion plays were the vogue
all the world's enraged

He looked up into his creation's face as he lay dying. He smiled as he saw a tear form.

It looked down on him with its expressionless, sempiternal face. It knew he was dying. It also knew it coul...

The music of the spheres
Waiting for a beat
Gives infinity pause

Nothing rhymes guilty:
Crimes that stand alone, each owned
separate but whole

Death holds you now my friend
As I hold onto what should have been
This corporeal fainter without;
There is beauty but for this war
My eyes kindled it within the light of yours; ...

Cerulea, an ode to thee.

Oh,shut it!

Heathen, philistine, have you no couth? ...

The dark forces gathered. Order they said, their order. And they took. We fight back. They are not winning. Neither are we. Atrocities are heavy everyday. Our skies dark with irradiated daylight, o...

Conundrums

It's the premise, overall
that holds the contexts
In obsteperous ...

After the wind stopped
Dangling charms cast dark shadows
We still push to chime

May Fairs

Stripey booths and cotton
candy smiles
Ticket strips, flocculent ...

"Poppycock," cried the Major, "poppycock and boulderdash!" His marching boots glistened in the early morning sun. Snapping his heels and turning toward the old soldiers' home dining hall, he furthe...

Snagged by his jacket's shoulder on the edge of an old weir, with feet dangling downstream, the priest's body swayed in the gentle but lively current. Andrew laughed. "And I shall make you fishers...

The couch held her multitudes, each day, all day. Every day, enthroned, while he worked. Once home, the nothing done while away glared at him. As did she should he mention it. "What're you going t...

Involuntary Involution

Rage, he said
Against the dying of the light
Implored, actually, ...

living in abstract transparencies
obvious reactionary tales
defenses become penumbra
dealing with the likes of you

Hindrance to the Thing

Wander Thoughts

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