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Oct 2021 · 276
Super 8 Film of Offerings
Onoma Oct 2021
super 8 film

of entwined

offerings left

running.

pre-opened...

though at rest.

more overarching

than what films

their inevitable

opening.
Oct 2021 · 174
Jack-o-Lantern's Mascara
Onoma Oct 2021
a crow & a raven

meltdown into the

hollows of a jack-o-lantern's

eyes.

as an overthrown flock

of blackbirds hone in on

an orange blip,

over a rooftop.

leaking mascara down

a jack-o-lantern's

hollows.
Oct 2021 · 227
Circle-yell
Onoma Oct 2021
kernels of corn

detach themselves

from the cob

of some kind of

Sun.

to necklace the

over-shed of

moonshine.

circle-yell,

full.

October is more

than a recurrence.
Oct 2021 · 340
Growth in Tidal Surges
Onoma Oct 2021
as land left

off its wilt, growth

in tidal surges.

forming pyramidal heads

of mountains.

any vista is a clarity...

too suitable for a discerning

mind.

She's one hell of a dancer...

strong enough to remain on

the ground with no one around.

till lifted way up.
Oct 2021 · 162
Being Composed
Onoma Oct 2021
when a Kingdom

is being composed...

your entrails are

hung from a twig.

to the enjambments

of flies.
Oct 2021 · 161
Paper Mache Wounds
Onoma Oct 2021
paper mache wounds

drive into their

porcelain doll.

fetches of deepening

red--making Rose.

profuse.

applications of hands--

shattering.

right before bed.
Oct 2021 · 147
She's Always at the Window
Onoma Oct 2021
bade meat in shifting

spotlight.

the veal of a stage pounded.

all the villagers shouting a

unique city.

keeping frayed appointments--

they were always there once.

punctually.

zeroing in on their accusatory

fingers--one gouge shy of an eye.

unblinking talisman.

contraction does not reciprocate.

she's always at the window.
Sep 2021 · 205
Ungluing White Hands
Onoma Sep 2021
darkness doesn't know

it's color...as it enacts

the thickest plaster

with striving.

ungluing white hands

that spread under the

wings of birds.

pausing abruptly midair--

over their clearing, wings

never more wide open.

breast to breast.

too final with embrace,

not rise overhead.
Sep 2021 · 121
Nirvana Loves to Kiss
Onoma Sep 2021
who can ever

lay down what

bores a center,

a hole...slow enough.

during a weather gone

too fair.

all excursions aside...

nirvana loves to kiss.
Sep 2021 · 200
PhalanX of the 300
Onoma Sep 2021
the phalanx

of The 300

understand

a spearhead

as it rattles

between their

ears.

hitting their

ground.

permanently.

having drawn

range.
Sep 2021 · 131
Blackened Moss
Onoma Sep 2021
blackened moss

in a zen garden.

distant from

silence.
Sep 2021 · 116
Stories Cooked Away
Onoma Sep 2021
the color red, in

all its template slabs--

delves into other

colors.

consuming them as it

hosts them (very well).

batting away beneath

flesh...suddenness catching

itself.

what cannot be put out--

cannot be put out.

stories cooked away.
Sep 2021 · 80
Assembled Misery
Onoma Sep 2021
mercurial illuminations

pray over a space

for you good people.

put together

in some **** good

time.

snap, snap.

splitting jungles to

our cipher.

rationed twists pacing

this boney rock.

tense gone passed

it's penultimate

passion.

littering streets

with the discarded

masks of assembled

misery.
Sep 2021 · 103
Whole of the House Up
Onoma Sep 2021
the vainglorious changes

clarity on bedsheets,

after leaving them there.

celibate scales choosing a

fine stone, to remember

what comes of accusatory

skeins.

itching at any serpentine

shame, with the whole house

up.
Sep 2021 · 184
A Torrential Sleep
Onoma Sep 2021
a torrential

sleep wants

after its

torn fabric.

too finely tailored

to fit.

against the quick

of rain.
Sep 2021 · 353
Light Switch
Onoma Sep 2021
even when a kitchen's

light switch

is stroked shut--

like a piano key

sleekly

greased with soul

food.

the sun stays on...

as the moon does

her thing.

impeccably undressed.

spying on her unknown

creatures.
Sep 2021 · 311
Petrified Fist
Onoma Sep 2021
one leaf has

to fall first,

atop a flower

like a petrified

fist.

performing an

austerity in

Mother India.

a damaru in Shiva's

hand.
Sep 2021 · 175
Watchers
Onoma Sep 2021
too many lions

are crying--with their

swollen ******* paws

resting on dusts dyed

blond.

as if poised at both sides

of a public library staircase.

retarding the suns that

crash on their heads.

with long-lived licks to

those paws.

rayed manes combed

through by granulation,

held in place by splashes

of blood.
Aug 2021 · 145
Still Life of a Tangerine
Onoma Aug 2021
still life

of a tangerine...

each pore a

way to look at

her.

demure with

unrivaled essence.

sweet enough

for starvation,

dizzy with the

thought of her

layers peeled

back.
Aug 2021 · 140
Save the Date
Onoma Aug 2021
save the date

of The Cross...

on your refrigerator.

say you can attend

the marriage of

direction.

save the date.
Aug 2021 · 150
Singled Out Entity
Onoma Aug 2021
a poem is a singled

out entity.

leaving no trace.

a phosphorescent

image greater

than the sun.
Aug 2021 · 186
Over Winter
Onoma Aug 2021
when picking

meets

an unfurled

petal,

fingers unhand

themselves.

in such a way--

that a mutual

scent

remains with

every petal

come winter.

over winter.
Aug 2021 · 172
Levitating Sanctuaries
Onoma Aug 2021
death has such

a distinct taste...

reliving the palette

of stained glass.

levitating sanctuaries

housed by dominion.

burning keyholes,

acoustical churns.

ready with acceptance.

please come in.

there's such a lithness

to limbs which traverse

a slanted staircase

highlighting a figure.
Aug 2021 · 230
Eighth Fountainhead
Onoma Aug 2021
what separates

wheat from the chaff

is golden.

a blindness unearthed.

that which shifts thru

shuddering space.

twin of innumerable

births.

seven countries to

the eighth fountainhead.

birds of paradise

supping away at color.

purple is once.

Supreme with migratory

patterns.

bathed erratically by

that conjuring.

dried off to be taken

by air.
Aug 2021 · 157
Sudden Sound
Onoma Aug 2021
every liar

produces a

sudden sound.

where an ear

has already been

leant.
Aug 2021 · 118
This Sphere's Core
Onoma Aug 2021
you can never

dismember

a pearl that

broke water.

this sphere's

core.
Aug 2021 · 147
Bludgeoning Mountain
Onoma Aug 2021
the glancing blow

of one stone.

sparks against

nothing else,

but a bludgeoning

mountain.

the pride of a

shore setting sail.
Aug 2021 · 165
Unsanctioned Hit
Onoma Aug 2021
he sat at the shadiest booth

in the diner.

sunglasses tinted to the

thirteenth power,

think Christ with his besties.

he slid some random ****

across the table to no one

visible, and grinned like

a *******.

it was death sanctioning

death to put a hit on death.

as an overly eager waiter

walked over.

ever-present.
Aug 2021 · 121
Cut Up of a Wet Palm
Onoma Aug 2021
threads of sound leave

goosebumps on the walls

of a retiring labyrinth.

whose guide opens his

mouth to scream into his

lover's.

supplanting echoes slowly

glisten like excited skins.

terrified harmonics shocked

to completion.

the cut up of a wet palm, in trust

of a wet palm.

destined for something.
Onoma Aug 2021
a skull left there, to fully

decompress an image.

the forced entry of a

reoccurring home, not to

be contrasted by its most

striking resemblance.

hardened by wick drawing

conical suns standing at

attention in eyed sockets.

spit out lukewarm to

wax...waterfalls

paralleled by patient rivers.
Aug 2021 · 100
Unspoiled Light
Onoma Aug 2021
the coiter of this dim

flay outlives the animal.

brushed aside with a

meticulous stroke--bade

bright to the tail end of

an exodus.

hunted off lands that can

never show their faces again.

there with the precise moment

when meat goes bad in unspoiled

light.
Aug 2021 · 199
Three Times the Apparition
Onoma Aug 2021
as lightning lain across the

resurrectional seasons of

sight herself...

freeing her when confined

to a stone's sleep.

three times the apparition

of her lushest garden to

bear witness to her wake.

amid the miscarriages of thunder.
Aug 2021 · 155
Segreta
Onoma Aug 2021
wet moon-paint drying on

walls that feel against one another

to find their way into emptying

out rooms--whose ceilings are glassy

veils pieced apart corner to corner.

dangling spiders like discarded trinkets.

cut from the womb of webs sworn to

secrecy--never to betray the whereabouts

of night.

with the same lips that soundlessly mouth

how they fell for her.
Aug 2021 · 179
Inbuilt Distance
Onoma Aug 2021
as horizontal lines are lowered

to disappearance across shores.

similarly an inbuilt distance of

return keeps ones guiding star

in its over-world chamber.

regenerating something more

complete than memory--which

is what life recalls.

death the twinkle in its eye--being

overcome by the throbs of its colorful

attractions.
Jul 2021 · 307
Blue Castle
Onoma Jul 2021
there's only incomprehension--

as even a Word given

reads like alphabetical order.

to watch its letters burnt

down for poetry.

end to end, as words having

received Word--leap from

the windows of a blue castle.

which mean as they fall for.
Jul 2021 · 124
Unseeable Hole
Onoma Jul 2021
fiery encirclets--

ground's birthmark

of night.

ash the skin of

smoke.

long since slithered

upward into

its unseeable

hole.
Jul 2021 · 235
Exchanging Crowns
Onoma Jul 2021
a purple apple tree abides

on a zephyrous hill.

wearing undone blindfolds

on its branches.

blown naked in the trust of

her figure eights, when they

came of her eyes.

as a pair of hands exchanging

crowns, to marry a Self-contained

undulation.

whose flux will never fade, with

the shock of imagining whose light

has suddenly been thrown on.
Jun 2021 · 255
With a Glop of Grey
Onoma Jun 2021
it's June###

(if you lie awake,

trying to pronounce June,

in NYC).

****-whacked by flies.

a handball court taking

pains to paint both wall to ball--

black and white.

halved in cold heat on impact.

with a glop of grey.

sparing players with a stroke.

as the backs of blue buses melt

and bumble, into a wealth of streets.

sanitation blowing those types of kisses.

with wheels going round and round,

de-ranged with reup and rot.
Jun 2021 · 162
Figura
Onoma Jun 2021
a divided house

leaves all the lights

on...but its doorway

is the darkest aperture

ever seen.

dust can be heard scraping

away the agonies of

The Ages.

along it.
Jun 2021 · 136
Fur Locked in Bone
Onoma Jun 2021
through spry sticks assaying

trees--wolves are being disseminated.

fur locked in bone, held together

by the howl of the gut--incontinent

with roaming country.

showed blood in blind tastes--squaring

packs in ravenous circles.

wearing unmuzzled ring-marks

of blood.
Jun 2021 · 319
Drawing Dual Grimaces
Onoma Jun 2021
Kali leaves her snarling

nail prints in a tiger's

nostrils.

long after no one is

invited.

drawing dual grimaces

of respect.
Jun 2021 · 215
A Fast has Come
Onoma Jun 2021
a fast has come

where the essentiality

of food, which comes

to mind with all its

delight, is waved off.

for the spine to align

against its brood of corner

walls...and watch night eat

well into day.

nauseous with sight come to

the fore.
Jun 2021 · 145
Made Yellow Believe
Onoma Jun 2021
bovine neck

broken

to produce

two horns.

the finery of

that crackle

made yellow believe

its color.

as flies were made

for their curious

round.

flirting with those

two tips, with the

proviso of being

impaled.
Jun 2021 · 132
Sola Mia
Onoma Jun 2021
the cruciform

wears the embroidering

fingertips of the Holy

Mother's sap at its edges.

blood gone black when

hit by all directions.
Jun 2021 · 108
Purple Never Knew
Onoma Jun 2021
purple never knew

a finicky rhythm

as it broke open its

ripest grape.

wine need not be offered

to kingdoms who crouch

the juice of such a table.

there are no minions,

only reservations for two...

(if you like).
Jun 2021 · 193
Ensures Outage
Onoma Jun 2021
there are no

wires that will

send shivers

across the right

Voices...

until.

a storm that registers

an uncharted magnitude...

ensures outage.
Jun 2021 · 141
Too Green for Red
Onoma Jun 2021
trails adore

blood-roses...

amidst greenery blown

precisely at an unmovable

moment.

an entire forest too

green for red.

recanting thorns like

ingrown nails.
Jun 2021 · 182
Fin-jerk Movements
Onoma Jun 2021
an unwavering tide

knows how to lose

itself on the side

of a Pisces...

making two eyes

one on the same

side of its face,

as it bobs.

all fin-**** movements

given away freely.
Jun 2021 · 450
Origin of Devotion
Onoma Jun 2021
a
bindu
is
a
singular
obsession...
continually
circumambulating
it­s origin
of
devotion.
Jun 2021 · 147
3 Thoughts at a Time
Onoma Jun 2021
thought singled

itself out, for

no reason...

but to climb the

trees of nervous

systems.

genius showed

down.

having more than

3 thoughts at a

time.
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