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Feb 2018 · 343
Algor Mortis
Nick Feb 2018
The adelite dust settling
     Smothering--
Coppertinted foot prints
Where we once played Graces
Sullen with Pride...

The Sun splayed&shimmering abaft
Our collectif
Charnel houses...  
     Bronze hued&
Yonder the fields of Spelt:
     Putrid plumage,
     Melancholy of Season--
Ashened from Time
Immemorial--
Feb 2018 · 258
Lachrymose
Nick Feb 2018
Beneath the Moor
     MarkedandMuddy--
Our footprints forlorn
In eons begotten &
Charnel Houses
Immemorial--
Feb 2018 · 204
Magellanic
Nick Feb 2018
The Magellanic Clouds,
virid up above;
the light of Streets
the rubberstamped rooms
the Winding Clock --
Shuttering forth
Houses expulsed by
the Wind:
beating in double Time.
Arias bursting,
Dissipating --
between Ears gushing
out.
Feb 2018 · 255
de novo
Nick Feb 2018
While my heart lay
sanguine
on dirt-studded Snow,
(spliced straight through
with memories of
Me&You)
She, (my Sun coppery&glossy glowing yonder East),
looks
through tussled
maligner
ing eyes;
through
honeycomb shades
&eyes timeworn with
pride; and teacups chipped in
daunting morning
ritual.
But these, thee,
thou my flower bed,
thou will riseandshine as
Thebes did
anew.
Jan 2018 · 213
Days Beneath the Mire
Nick Jan 2018
the suns soft soothing rays:
golden, gleaming.
honeysuckling throughout the field
where you used to play.

your childhood waning with the moon
the sweet grass once a forest:
never ending. a story that
strayed between you and I.

ere long the wind blows,
and tousles your hair.
a glint in your hazelnut eyes
straying towards my plane.

so I linger for a mile:
listlessly, illusory.
and I saw your sweet smile
hidden beneath the mire.
Nick Jan 2018
The Sea speckling waves, I -
Watched the seafoam stretched
Yonder - azure and proud -
Upon the sea cliff,
Standing tall peering down,
Waves crashing upon the
Seashore shivering cold.

Lost in poesy, alas I -
Peered down the air
Gelid, humming from within a
Gilted and melodic tune -
As thrice I looked back
Your sordid gaze a hazey
Interlude to the crimson tide.
Jan 2018 · 230
Cities and Moors
Nick Jan 2018
I have died
    on the cities
        and moors.
Avenues great gold
    and
        Godly.
Where the antelope
    Walk
With eyes pointed
    Northerly
The seascape far and
    W   i   d   e.
Bright eyes and
Misty days
    None are left
        They've all turned olive green
As bees fly
    down
        wind
Whispering with gilted
Tongues
    Slithering
Nick Jan 2018
Under the Sky
    with the Moon hung
        light Gold
            and
        Silver.
My nature hung
    Free -
Dancing down the
    Avenues
        with Glee -
The Strangers i've Seen
    with misty eyes red
        Gleaming -
In the Night
    past the Wreathes
            where the Birds nestle in
                their
                    Nests.
Strangers walking aglow dandy & grey
Avenues stretched endlessly
Mannequins, street lights,
    all tranquil:
        waving
    You
By.
Jan 2018 · 245
Wo bist du?
Nick Jan 2018
Under the Bridge, along the Promenade: we
walked with words trickling through our
waxy lips. Where the Seafront was all silk.
Where the Waxwings, sealed wax tips,
lumbered about the Empyrean yonder:
splayed upon a Canvas
of Sapphire and Azure.
Before the Starry Night has come.
Before we reached the Shore only to
Digress.
    "Liebe verleiht Flügel,"
I heard, or read in a Book.
The Streets are crimson rust;
The Spectators in Sanitariums watched
drab passersby. They shambled and
coughed admixt the crowded room, only
to find the Peristyle vacant and dead.
A Mantic Women, cards of dread,
stands on the corner; our
eyes catched, and She speaks:
    "Wo bist du?"
        "Wo bist du?"
            Louder and fists shaking:
    "Wo bist du?"
The buildings doddered, filled with
Cuscuta.
In Montauk, where we met, now withered,
covered in snow, I stood - my comportment
unsteady. Flashing in the distance I see
Point Light - Captain Kidd musing with his
Money Ponds - an Angel guiding wonderous
blights - The Recognitions, blimey,
Mr. Gaddis has gone blind - The Faustian
apotheosis abound -
The Streets are crimson rust
filled with dread.
Smelling of Jack-by-the-hedge -
I'm walking...
Noctivagant aura permeates -
Mich.
Jan 2018 · 174
Redlovely
Nick Jan 2018
Luscious lemons in your silky hair waving as you saunter down the gilted avenue. From my seat, all buckling unsturdy, your redlovely lips upon pearl face gaze my way. The old women on wooden tables kneading their Orecchiette with daughters all drawn and hasty. Brahmana passing by in tight little groups. Proverbs whispered from sealed lips. The Sun near the Gondolas passing en plein air. Pigeons splayed upon the etherized Sky all-atwitter with thought. And I see you passing through the marketsquare: afire with meadowsweet dress. The violins quivering a crescendo of Baroque notes as you turn a sorrowful glance, but, alas, it's lost in the crowd.
Jan 2018 · 262
The Slumberous Thoroughfare
Nick Jan 2018
slumberous thoroughfare
panning by--
the

weather
boldn
dry--

the day languorous
all
forgotten--

passing the
pawpaw
denude

of
fruit--    
&

bluebells
blemished
by
    
winters barren
lossless
brew
    
see the
passage--      

a few
steps--        
through

palisade
unlatched--            
eyes

reticent in
windows--

watching
pass
Jan 2018 · 195
Jacinth
Nick Jan 2018
Basilgreen tattered Weeds
Thatched --
They lay
Cluttered --
Upon the madding Floor;
Cloaked in Laurel
Where -- Once --
Sweetbriers
Flourished below the
Jacinth Nests --
Jan 2018 · 177
Sempiternal
Nick Jan 2018
the Sun shimmering, setting, slightest pink glimpses
past trees with phosphorus glows, and
ballasts yawning and workers heavehoing.
She sets yonder--ooh my freckled darling--with solar tick-tocking
beasts and worms emerge & clatter:
strewn upon streets sempiternal.
Nick Jan 2018
A chirrup beneath my
window syll
"Chirrupchirrup."
            
A Pipit goes. Café au lait
plumage quavering in dew
and wind.
        
Splayed on syll sublime
his songs he
sings.
            
My ears, freshwoken, hear
tender crescendo and I
arise

and start the
day.

— The End —