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203 · Sep 2021
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.
203 · Mar 2019
Worded Nonetheless
Onoma Mar 2019
the inoperable,

still recited--

as ask the furthermore

of where's its poetry.

having caught light

behind the scenes...

boldly scolded to its

baldest face.

third eye's a crowd.

with no lesser capture.

worded nonetheless.
203 · Feb 2021
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.
203 · Jan 2024
Jamberry's Bleach
Onoma Jan 2024
snakes always

make out.

two almonds limp

with kiss.

adapting crevices.

expository colorations.

jamberry's bleach--

needing space.

imagining the need

of space.
202 · May 2022
Taste Water
Onoma May 2022
a smear of

passing...

wonderfully

drawn from.

Now I-I can

taste water.

there existing

no remenant,

but that Taste.
202 · Jan 2019
A World Backstepping
Onoma Jan 2019
light loves to

flood, and rinse

all kinds of

exquisite reflection.

palpitating color

hinged on choiceless

words.

there's this grain-sized

aperture that points

to you.

my best friend,

whose wisdom's

assumed a philosophical

quagmire.

creative as a world

backstepping.
202 · Mar 2018
Worded Worm
Onoma Mar 2018
it was Hamlet
that worded
a worm from
a robin's beak.
a portrait pink
sliver left to
riffling greenery.
202 · Apr 2019
Drown Out Motion
Onoma Apr 2019
the sea bears no lanes,

yet currents change concurrently.

motion without mind to right

of way--tides waving closer

and further from shore.

where

destination becomes the distance

between breaths, gladly drown.

not once losing touch with all

that's untouchable--deep down

to the crushing pressure that

carries the sea's weight.

where the sun's rays flicker out

in a pure act of faith.
202 · Sep 2018
To Take Mine
Onoma Sep 2018
I'm a sun

set to rise...

as fall

for a sea's

cut-off-line.

i watched

your hand

way before

you pulled

it out babe.

to take mine.
201 · Nov 2023
Plectrum of Green
Onoma Nov 2023
two wet tufts

roll rondure

in duplicitous

form.

off the wings

of an albino

pigeon.

her eyes are

outlined in a

bare pink.

so her eyes

can assume

a

plectorum of

green.
201 · Jan 2019
I Whisper to Thee
Onoma Jan 2019
my dear, i whisper

to thee what haunts--

in essence.

a profoundly secret

and intimate space...

inhabited by a longing

that will not announce

itself.

yet smothers with its

growing intensity.

intrusive as a host of voyeurs.

an oppressive air you

just want to writhe against.

i am that air...breathing all

over you.

i am possessed of an enveloping,

and unapologetic strength...

around you.
201 · Mar 2018
Orange Grip
Onoma Mar 2018
To what tired
end does fire
lose its orange
grip?
Will it ever let
go its final
handful of night?
A fabric too
rich for time
is torn.
Keepsake's keepsake's
keepsake.
There's not a gawddamn
angel or devil nimble
enough to part those
fingers.
201 · Feb 2021
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.
201 · Apr 2019
Space of Stone
Onoma Apr 2019
up with smoke--

deified silence,

motioning a step

beyond movement.

long drawn in a

space of stone--

commanding what

remains.

as it must go, and what

goes is replenished.

thunderous darshan...

the seer seen, the seer

seen, the seer seen!

the body glows in the dark--

ignorance roasting~
201 · Sep 2019
Walked Thru
Onoma Sep 2019
seasons don't

want to be

prominent

divisions, but

I'm walked thru

falling leaves.
Onoma Dec 2023
celluloid doors closing in on

celluloid windows--whose viewership

colors, color through windows

because of open doors.

then celluloid doors close--taking their

doors & windows with them.

where the film reel tangles the ribbons of

its pregift occasions.

an Apollonian & Dionysian grimoire.

transposing a botchy maroon glare,

which backs as much as fronts snuffed

out pillars.

whose reverse is a thickly applied, solvent

mass.
200 · Feb 2021
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.
200 · Jun 2019
Walking Can Talk
Onoma Jun 2019
as my lady walks

to me--

I look at these feet

and think of how

many times they've

grown from different

bodies.

they need not walk

further, and I'd be the

fool that I Am to tell

you how glad they are

to remain put.

come...Love of all my

lives, come.

walking can talk, as

there are places they've

been.

made real now!
200 · Feb 2019
Rivers Making Changes
Onoma Feb 2019
what you feel

flowing thru

you are the

Holy Mother's

rivers making

changes.

incredible changes.

all the way to The Ocean.
200 · Feb 2024
Green Study Lamp
Onoma Feb 2024
a green study lamp--

the size of a defunct,

underground playhouse.

pulls its chain--

(scintillates of dimes

ferried upward).

opens the

coloriage of curtains with

bags under their eyes.

A Forest relieves the backdrop

of a forest...as leathery tree stumps

twist.
200 · May 2024
Monthly Grimoires
Onoma May 2024
a gusty whip of pages,

read clear as a

goat's bell collar.

what deflowers snow--

this stack

of monthly grimoires.

broken open

by penetrative invocations.

as leaves slowly begin to

bake.
200 · Jan 2021
Wolf Moon
Onoma Jan 2021
when the land has locked its jaw,

and starving recesses fight to get

loose, only the wind breaks free.

blowing away from what froze it

clear, watching January choose a

place to die alone.

rumbling in the pits of wolves'

stomachs, shadowing and shadowed

by the place January chose to die alone.

their darkening magic severe enough

to cast out what it casts--driven on all

fours through trackless acts of disappearance.

the trees see nothing of this, coldly burning

at their own stakes, having been stripped bare...

their congregations sway from time to time.

the fall and the spread of nothing, clear from

the throats of wolves...rising.

a sickly yellow arena, with last-leg effulgence

comes around to their howls, and hangs there

as the pithy of survival.
200 · Jun 2019
Grey Rings
Onoma Jun 2019
as of this writing

perfection is attaining itself.

how I know, I cannot tell--

not to qualify, betray what

is growing passed the bounds

of mortality.

there is a sweetness that lightness

savors--undaunted by the taste

of the sky.

alas circumference is had, as the grey

rings around her eyes dissolve.
199 · Feb 2021
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.
199 · Feb 2024
Loch ness Monster
Onoma Feb 2024
the Loch ness Monster

sidewinds.

extending the shadows

of its neck...underwater.

those shadows won't

wash off, until The Loch

Ness Monster,

pays another visit.
199 · Jan 2024
Divorcees of Blue
Onoma Jan 2024
a shore is pushed back--

into its raring cutoff.

its lungy dunes, flounder

on their relative sides.

castle walls keeled even.

fishtailed, as glassy calms--

sparkling with the tidal floods

they down.

--do ripples betray oceanic age?

no.

a flower girl that suddenly tears

out a beach umbrella--does.

she whirls it till a beatdown desert,

throws off its color scheme.

there, there are people--which notice:

sand-sea-sky...become divorcees of

Blue.
199 · Dec 2024
Colors of the Undwelt
Onoma Dec 2024
colors of the undwelt, the violence of
letting go--read in the expression of flesh.
hidden away in garbage, forests, coffins--
right now.
as on this day dying so young.
the mourned as the mourner bore away--
to gradually put to light that moment again.
it feels as though spirits deplete nothingness to get at a moment that's
its own.
their powers of observation seem to command: look still, look still, look still!
if direction is traffic's singular will, &
motion is salvation--imagine if motion stops short of what has come to pass.
it would be as if spirits realized they were
breathing for no reason.
that there are far more delicate balances
held therein.
it's as if darkness becomes more of light than ever, & light becomes more of darkness than ever.
right when polarities are most distinct, they assume the other polarity through
relinquishment.
*On Dec. 21, 2024 Winter Solstice.
199 · Dec 2019
A Truly Artful Stain
Onoma Dec 2019
ugly dolled up--

a good quiet cry, eyes squeezed

shut.

pretend makes it go away--

sweet sociopathic denial.

misshapen rancor, not a word

spoken of it, only haggard

hobblings, and gutless mouthings.

that cross the T of the tale.

fresh white sheets thrown over a corpse

that plays dead, while the heart

bleeds through.

a truly artful stain.
199 · Jul 2023
13 Black Leather Hides
Onoma Jul 2023
a raven lays prone before

a remote tree line--flapping

its wings & kicking its feet

like old clay animation.

taught as thirteen black

leather hides passing as the

sky above.

it came up from the earth to

furiously swim across the

ground.

having become the splintered

dolor of shadow--a sun's

standstill, its one off solidities

of self-reflection.

held to secondariness.
199 · Feb 2018
Devil Trill Sonata
Onoma Feb 2018
raindrops
trembling from
the rail of a
fire escape.
as Tartini's:
"Devil Trill Sonata"
wipes them
away.
199 · Aug 2019
Pronounced Light
Onoma Aug 2019
one Heart

and the whole of time--

has occasioned the

saying of such things:

the word of her name

of her essence--

the word of his name

of his essence.

made

one Heart.
198 · Feb 2021
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.
198 · Jan 2019
Addresses
Onoma Jan 2019
light follows

me home so

it can illuminate

impertinent

addreses.
198 · Dec 2019
Gravely Wounded Animal
Onoma Dec 2019
foisting abandonment issues--

coring out all that hurt to gain

another's trust as you'd want

to be loved.

all the gravely wounded animal's

learnt about love's security ripped

away.

all that  you were denied, so

you deny another that love to gain

some measure of power.

going through those helpless motions

with the fiendish wish to leave

another helpless.

wearing the ill-fitting look of cruelty

amid the privatest of quarters.

though in the end-- such an act is

suicidal.
197 · Feb 20
Read Thru Sawdust
Onoma Feb 20
A study the size of a fallen book,

a carpenter's Sabbath.

A broken candle's muddy light--its

austere wimple.

A wooden desk dragged still, a half

still life.

Whose prehistoric scree-roar, sine

waves a crack on the wall.

A medieval ruff connected to a

hand-sharpened pencil on the floor.

Used for measuring the poem of an

unmade chair.

Caddy corner wooden shelf practicing

the faith of books.

As it takes years to read thru sawdust.
197 · Aug 2021
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.
197 · Mar 2024
In a Blackening Locket
Onoma Mar 2024
Mara's silvery-white locks

entombed in a blackening

locket.

fidgeting curls forming

insipidly winding knots.
197 · Sep 2020
Sindoor
Onoma Sep 2020
as sindoor

applied throughout

a devi's body...

with one hand growing

out of another.

her fierce vivacity

out-dancing her betrothal

to arising worlds.

wearing blood-light.
197 · May 2019
Tea Ceremony
Onoma May 2019
praying mantises

dressed in

kimonos.

engaged in a

Japanese tea

ceremony.

slow verdant

movements.

rising mindful

potency.
196 · May 2018
Fainting Sweats
Onoma May 2018
Lot's kiss--
sea's hence,
enjambment of lips.
pursed
slugs withering at
the dose of salt.
composure's small
gathering.
slowly winding
around her port,
brittle bones shaking
a height crying gull.
she's playing glass
piano keys violently--
splintered refractions
stuck to the meat-clumps
of flowers.
catalytic spring secreting
fainting sweats, near
beauty blackout.
collapsing on a park bench.
bag pipes, town bell's top of the hour,
territorial squawking of geese,
metronomic coos of turtle doves.
Harmonize.
196 · May 2019
Delivering a Point
Onoma May 2019
this world

bulges for us

to work out

otherness.

delivering a

point from

pregnancy.
196 · Dec 2019
The Kid's Shades
Onoma Dec 2019
they'll be no attestation

to the fool hitting gold--

seeing where you didn't

know you were coming

from.

dons The Kid's shades...

cutting up the bellies of

water to prophesy.

there's no refutation of

the truest born.

if you ever dared to watch

it go on...you might not

be here.
196 · May 2019
Cold
Onoma May 2019
people

(like me)

can be

cold--

like food

left untouched.

to rest a place

of overexposure.
196 · Sep 2019
Birds Agree
Onoma Sep 2019
birds agree

on music,

the falling

trees in the

deads of

forests.

always silently

heard.
196 · Mar 2022
To Situate Self
Onoma Mar 2022
an uptown scarecrow debuting

downtown birds, browses convexo-

concave storefront windows for

a costume.

stuffed with a sun's harvest of fully

lost hair.

more unfamiliar than any creeping or

flying thing.

venturing into daylight, where one

image winces into the form of all

images thereafter.

an odd vengeance running out of

paint, still wet--yet dry.

as a mouth's penchant for words,

once uttered, forcing the most

well-adjusted hypocrite to situate

Self.

just when it is shown to its very own

space...things unravel.
196 · Jan 2019
Flash-frozen Parrots
Onoma Jan 2019
you rode

this meridian

hard enough...

to flash-freeze

parrots.

wordless and masterless.

multi-colored snow~
196 · Mar 2023
Black Stamp Castle
Onoma Mar 2023
there's an abandoned castle--

that sits like a wet, black stamp

on a hilltop.

overridden by a kingdom that

will not come again.

a frozen--then released overspray

of birds left to horizonal adrenaline.

matchstick humanoids hurling

out of its windows & trapdoor.

raving descriptions of fire.
196 · Sep 2018
A Humble Wish
Onoma Sep 2018
please take

comfort in

being

unrecognizable

to yourself.

a humble

wish for

one and all.
195 · May 2019
Master Handler
Onoma May 2019
spilt blood in the dark--

astro cold.

red wrung ebon.

stone talisman crushed underfoot--

dreamcatchers up in flames.

as barreling tons let fall the

house of nevermore--

that never was.

upon a witch whose toes curl.

where no core shakes upon

impact...and jade serpents

slither out of broken spells.

shedding skins that their

master handler taught them

not to look back at.
195 · Aug 2024
Sooty Stomach
Onoma Aug 2024
an occulted mass kicking at light gone
a moment ago, as if in a sooty stomach,
maleficent enough to deliver the unborn.
cries that vent down a lengthening
hallway--abandoned to what forces open
an original wakefulness.
the way knowing you becomes a cryptic
comorbidity, a walk of shame every morning--
a slathered nausea, too smooth for sickness.
tons of traumatized flesh recanting vulnerability,
(mostly yours) long after a bed became a
one-sided argument.
seasons regard you with braindead gossip: 'is that
her again, she still exists--she always thinks
something's off, it's the landfill of personal stuff she
compulsively goes through. '
a nonstop pause for Jane, her yoyoing edge--a highly
inconspicuous center of attention, captured in photos
superficially waving off the fuss.
a hyperalert shutdown, Cinderella's carriage to pumpkin
developing acne vulgaris, sloppily tripping with eyes
caked on her.
angsty & unrestorable disconnects--daring selectees to
root out a fantastic despiser.
tender years designating the world as an apologist.
a chronic sense of entitlement winks out, already 
elsewhere--as if nothing ever happens.
then happens all at once, a fluorescently lit bathroom
unsparing an in-your-face ugliness.
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