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May 2021 · 112
Wetter than Water
Onoma May 2021
a hemorrhaging flood having

flashbacks--too lucid to pass away.

making vaster its return...an Ocean

that is given.

paralleling unreachable shores,

plumbing unreachable depths.

far gone and wetter than water,

where a sky drops its mirror to

summon its shards.

where silence detaches enough

to harden its shell.

rolled around the pearled eyes

of behemoths that follow something

larger than themselves.
May 2021 · 153
Featureless Film Reel
Onoma May 2021
suffused movie screens

separating silver from

shadows.

simultaneous sequences

quivering free--glinting

proterozoic slime, competing

takes at first light.

never seen the same way

again by its hovering void.

itself being vacuumed into

a featureless film reel.
Onoma May 2021
wind gust, blood

and thorn.

upturned umbrellas.

many over--rose

bushes angling

for rain.

foremost faces.

livid with the loss

of color, having

become season-wise.

red at war with wilt,

a painless once.

an unimaginably

excruciating twice,

all in the span of a

color.
May 2021 · 123
Rondure of Plain Sight
Onoma May 2021
this kind of

music trips over

a series of chords.

while hurling toward

a horizonal tie in...

disseminates aerials into

grander crosses.

eyed down the aisle

of a moon, eyed down

the aisle of a sun.

to expose birth signs in

the rondure of plain sight.

insuppressible.
Apr 2021 · 203
To Lay Low In
Onoma Apr 2021
smoky white diamonds

in the canticle-crest of

a wet sun, sudden with

bursts of moon.

enmeshed sound...

slowly rewound

to the oracular mouth

of a ******* moan.

rankly blotted out, by

doornail-stiff hibernations.

fleshed out by a ******

wilderness to lay low in.

again.
Onoma Apr 2021
concentric rings around

a rosie, tiny magicians with

pockets full of posies.

rattling in a birdcage, dancing away

between bars--teal blue

hats and cloaks, overlaid with

icy yellow stars.

broom-beards wisped down to

their feet, apercus gloaming.

scroll mustiness of aslant starlight--

shuffling space dust divining an Age.
Mar 2021 · 172
At Last Black
Onoma Mar 2021
there's an irresponsiveness

that gets turned on at

first black.

still the features that show

up are distinct.

an entire entity leans in.

withdrawing the ashen bathwater

of Shiva...who knows when

to slather it on.

though he's cleanly extracted.

draining the sounds contained in

broken water.

post, post, post scriptum...

Escher etchings of a raven

motioning its only pair of wings.

turned out at last black.
Mar 2021 · 368
Table Manners
Onoma Mar 2021
feral dichotomies

have already wolfed

down the pre-bitten

hand.

burping unapologetically.

there are Table Manners

too impeccable.

a sign of appreciation in any

culture of bad blood.

made good.
Feb 2021 · 233
No Need of Restoration
Onoma Feb 2021
there's an emphasis on

hands melting like the

wax of unlit candles.

reaching out.

the stifled coughs of a

pew's darkness  can be

heard, along with the

smell of freshly baked

bread.

Rembrandt works his way

through a crowd, to where

icons live in paint.

with no need of restoration.
Feb 2021 · 175
Unchained Saw
Onoma Feb 2021
sawdust

can see every

revolution of

a chainsaw.

predisposed

to a knife leaving

its mark on an

open country.

unable to lie about

seeing something

spit about like

wooded water.

catching the windless

fire of ether.
*Inspired by the ******* band, Boundaries: "Carve".
Feb 2021 · 132
Please Overstand
Onoma Feb 2021
please overstand,

that your aftershocks

will take a Heart.

combing over your

coldest grooves.

long after they've

been pronounced

by her music.
Feb 2021 · 160
Verdant Pinches
Onoma Feb 2021
having  been forced

to repeat Ourself--

Mother dearest was brought

back to life by something

of spring.

as one of her own slipped

out of the door.

she tried to bring

her family together.

noticing verdant pinches

crop up.

hell had its fury.

when stated, bold-faced:

I don't understand You.

if only pauses could give

what they take.
Feb 2021 · 139
Rundown
Onoma Feb 2021
eyelashes

suture

their

singulated

eye.

periodically

broken

open

for a lifetime.

a

rundown of

blood.

stolen away on

dissimilar skin.
Feb 2021 · 106
Might've Seen a Dust
Onoma Feb 2021
I've might've

seen a dust

kicked up in

such a way...

that

its desert  floats

on water.

finding the walk

on that water too prosaic.
Feb 2021 · 112
Beaded Chandeliers
Onoma Feb 2021
these beaded chandeliers

of a very hard

rain pop out the

twinkle of a color

from branches.

stolen from the riches

of a Queen, handed

back with both hands.

as threads stream

across a fetching

web...unburdened

by dreams as flies

nose in.

leaves are softening

their handprints from

a forgotten fall.

juice climbs a tree

with no sound on it.

no skeleton is craven

while held up to a

season.
Feb 2021 · 174
Neatly Contained Flood
Onoma Feb 2021
as rain is unhatched,

startling roofs with

a knock that partook

in what came before

sound.

I lie none the wiser...

to an imploding

aquarium.

a neatly contained

flood in another

tongue.
Feb 2021 · 127
Finding no Fault
Onoma Feb 2021
Diane Arbus

purposely mismatched

inside out eyes.

finding no fault.

staring out of rooms.

breathing in mold

deep enough to peel

the paint off their walls.

unwilling to condemn

a solitary thing.
Feb 2021 · 107
Unhousable Adjustments
Onoma Feb 2021
the muscle memory of

bed sheets are starving

to death.

they keep being pulled

off of their own accord--

one night at a time.

they receive adjustments.

unhousable adjustments.

worshipping a structure

so far from home.

direction remade from

directionlessness.

encompassed memory

devoid of bone.
Feb 2021 · 105
A Yellow Journal
Onoma Feb 2021
Van Gogh ensconced

to a yellow journal.

whose reportage

curls the toes of stars...

something like airliners

coupled with the streaks

of speeding boats.

carving sediments.
Feb 2021 · 104
An: O of Breath
Onoma Feb 2021
there are ways in which

things are happening...

that should round off to

another sphere.

an: O of breath.

blown by a crystallized

little girl...

with a rattling halo

settling like a soundless

coin.

watching that rounded off

sphere bubble clear off

her freedom-land.

shaping up to her wish.
Feb 2021 · 97
Solidity Smiles
Onoma Feb 2021
let alone--

a pebble

to pray

to

the

rock

of

a

mountain.

coming in

and out

of an Ocean

rain.

the first drop is

always too slow

to quench itself.

which's why the

last drop has to fall

somewhere.
Feb 2021 · 124
Spiritus Sancti
Onoma Feb 2021
purple is

the oral history

of our undissolved

sacrament.
Onoma Feb 2021
my Mother told me

more gently than herself...

what it took to get me here.

in her inimitable way.

trees stuck at attention...

falling all over a horizon.

there was a lightness

moved so violently that

it refused to speak to

no one.

an unexpected guest

blissed-out her son,

unbeknownst to her.

what a liar has been unmade.

the metallic grooves of a

guitar...picked away to morning

sickness.

swelling to a cello.

bees dying face-first on snow.

flowers mastering magicians.

tapering off the right color.
Feb 2021 · 111
Sticks can Sway
Onoma Feb 2021
having seen

what you have

seen is no competition.

internality smiles away.

leaving tracks in a snow

sitting far too pretty for

spring.

sticks can sway in city

spots...opening a forest.

a random observation

is a telescope if I say so.

don't be afraid...die-up.

down is a stranger to it's

own craft.
Feb 2021 · 113
Take it Some More
Onoma Feb 2021
if a black hole

were a dial,

and your favorite

station...played

your favorite song.

helping your hand to it.

until you couldn't

take it anymore.

take it some more.

then the record will

not skip.
Feb 2021 · 507
Triptych of a Bridge
Onoma Feb 2021
the triptych of a bridge

volumes its water...

a passable erasure.

of an altar nothing should

be said.

the triptych of a bridge

smoothens over again.

poised as light murmuring

to its confidant.

setting aside the differences

of air pulled by constant

traffic.

there's this triptych of a

bridge, that knows what

wind is made of...here and

there.

separate as ways gone as far

as they can go.

seeing passed doubles.
Feb 2021 · 124
Her Oranges
Onoma Feb 2021
precisely at dawn

she worked out

her oranges around

this chest.

spelling color differently.

angulation on a heaving

plane.

dancing through

a window, elated

to rest there.

it was so striking

that I had to look...

all there was, was

the wonder of how

she got there.

the metric of her

genius exceeds

himself.

there's no grappling

with a poet in residence.

how many times can

you wake up is not

a question.
Feb 2021 · 160
Freehand
Onoma Feb 2021
the art

of

a

point

not

remote

from its

circle.

can draw

a flawless

circle.

freehand.
Feb 2021 · 153
Already Outrun
Onoma Feb 2021
fruits bruise

in the musculature

of a stallion.

plum-purple beating

the heart of a night.

already outrun.

taken by its own

outline.

somewhere...

going.

movements left...

penetrating.
Feb 2021 · 133
Chanting Blue
Onoma Feb 2021
Shiva's central

obsession is being

touched by the

color blue.

open or closed

books chanting

blue.

staunch memorization.

chanting the color blue.

wherein, whereby...

meta-phors sleep with

their eyes open.
Feb 2021 · 146
History of Flight
Onoma Feb 2021
birds are talking

away through drawn

blinds.

they can see their

words way before

they hear them.

songs go a long way.

might I say I have

heard something I've

never heard before.

might I say.

if their words were

anymore candid,

their whole history

of flight would cease

to exist.
Feb 2021 · 155
Duplication
Onoma Feb 2021
duplication is

rotten, it goes

bad when left

out.

an unkempt

temple cleaned

for food.
Feb 2021 · 132
Not be Survived by
Onoma Feb 2021
just now,

spring lie

on her serrated

side--

on winter's bed.

he's fast asleep...

she's looking him

over, thinking:

you haven't killed me

yet you ****.

i will not be survived

by.
Feb 2021 · 116
Centering Their Conclusions
Onoma Feb 2021
You know you

ought to join

them, but you

leave them to

their study.

such brilliant

deductions walk

off bodies.

centering their

conclusions.
Feb 2021 · 116
A Golden Calf Fattens
Onoma Feb 2021
a crumpled napkin

slides across a table.

a golden calf fattens

on a cloudy day.

a propped up flower

reads a Chinese vase

fluently.

so much so, the mountain

it depicts is no longer

woven around villagers

that seek enlightenment.

unconditional as clouds

beaten to wool.
Feb 2021 · 117
Crossways
Onoma Feb 2021
in this welling's

music--seas remain

unparted, there's

no flailing in water's

drowning.

multitudinal calms

have washed over

the look of every

consideration.

fitting perfectly on

distant shores.
Feb 2021 · 124
Quicker Than Once
Onoma Feb 2021
the silver

interments in

a bolt of lightning

smoke out a blind

divide.

unstruck between

split eyes that

crack open quicker

than once.
Feb 2021 · 143
Equivalents
Onoma Feb 2021
the

silhouette

of

A

bonsai tree...

offers almost

no answer to

its form through

paper-thin panels.
Feb 2021 · 145
Crystal Pack
Onoma Feb 2021
the sound, the sounds

(singular-plural) coalescing

their surface runoff.

of melting snow, snows

(singular-plural)

as these sounds issue

from the accumulation

of multiple snows.

weigh on the mind's

crystal pack, which will

soon expose the ground

of a sky.

too little the singularity,

too much the plurality--

therefore neither.
Feb 2021 · 133
A Whole Miracle
Onoma Feb 2021
holiness dies up

to itself.

a whole miracle.
Feb 2021 · 166
Blackest Rose
Onoma Feb 2021
in the middle of the night

the unredeemable left undetected.

standing for the deathblow of its

blackest rose.

disinherited as far as the eye can

see.

in love with the despair that rushes

over what's too alone to abandon,

or be abandoned.

what always meant to say nothing...

cut at the root.
Feb 2021 · 162
Peace Must Consider You
Onoma Feb 2021
apathy is a rightfully

peculiar equanimity--

growing indifferent

to overexposure.

filming period pieces

of weather.

too still for any life.

you'd better be too

dead to play the part

enough to be overlooked.

peace must consider you.
Feb 2021 · 180
Wrath Incurred
Onoma Feb 2021
a stone

surrounded

by a desert.

is the shape

of wrath

incurred.

the clacking

mouth of a

prophet broken

open.
Feb 2021 · 168
Wedging in Chasms
Onoma Feb 2021
moth-eaten light

listens to the shafts

of feedings.

tear through sackcloth.

worn by elder

nights wedging in

chasms for a sleep

that may never come.
Feb 2021 · 154
Forest of Bones
Onoma Feb 2021
a blind master's

rainbow-respirations

cover a forest of bones.

overseeing future

incarnations.

he is highly reverenced

by where even space

cannot enter.
Feb 2021 · 152
Matissean Reds
Onoma Feb 2021
a background of

Matissean reds--

(foremost an apple

of many swelling

wantonly).

among other fruits:

tables, chairs, couches,

rugs.

luxuriant bloodletting.

nuptial birds of paradises

lost, encaged.

framed by a submerged

foreground.
Feb 2021 · 279
Amulet of Blue Pearl
Onoma Feb 2021
an amulet of Blue Pearl

sinks delicately into a chest--

as wildfires burn at the

bottom of its ocean.

while thundering waves

mince and elongate the

windowy surface above.

the Blue Pearl spits out

the starry image of its

truest north.
Feb 2021 · 173
Frayed Slither
Onoma Feb 2021
against dilapidated walls

a pnuema's frayed slither

undoes skin a blush dead.

moistening motions of

maggots gleaming darkly--

bathed by airless confines

overspilling between an

untamable essence.
Feb 2021 · 157
A Snow Around Indefinition
Onoma Feb 2021
there is a tree narrow

enough for a wood.

to reap a snow around

indefinition.

the trunk of Her ankle.

holed-up white, with

wind and cessation.

incontrovertible water.

though it appears so.

white.
Feb 2021 · 194
An Owl Leaves Daylight
Onoma Feb 2021
as impressions shorten their form,

an owl leaves daylight suddenly.

flattening its wings over an Ocean,

all-ways light.

alighting at your window, one

motion free from stillness.

so You can hear the sound contradicted

by the customariness of nothing fathomed.

there's something that worries over

an owl that resurrects daylight on a

crooked limb.

the speed of acceptance deemed late.

the owl was there once...

leaving out everything.

And would you know it?

an owl's downcurved beak smiled

back...reappearing.

falling down lifelessly over branches

that redrew the most vehement disappearances.
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