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147 · Apr 2018
Flowering Dogwood
Onoma Apr 2018
flowering
dogwood--
white.
smoking
stills,
her sun slants
down
an
aisle.
she's walking
through
wedding days.
throwing
petals
at
wind.
146 · Dec 2019
Prayer Barrier's Lifted
Onoma Dec 2019
when the prayer

barrier's lifted,

you wander into...

answer Yourself.

happening Now.

far beyond, far

closer than desire

or aversion.
146 · May 2021
Licking Leaves Twice
Onoma May 2021
i just realized,

seeing ink bleed

back to back thru

a single page--

disturbs me.

almost like a

serpent trying to

work out its

bifurcated

tongue.
146 · Jul 2023
The Matador is Still There
Onoma Jul 2023
a Mouth remains open--

never having hungered

after space.

a matador is in it--his

figure cannot be seen at

all.

though he is still there.

the bull he dances with

is still there.

they are a floating heap

of red roses--whose petals

disappear into their own

impaling *****.

as a cape would.
146 · Nov 2019
Freckled Tusk
Onoma Nov 2019
a gust-plastered

leaf remains stuck

to the screen.

it resembles an elephant's

freckled tusk.

the sun glows its

seasonal lastly.

it's very much an art

piece.

i will leave it there till

it falls off.
146 · May 2019
Desert-diving
Onoma May 2019
desert-diving,

digging through dust...

where John lie

unnamed even

though he named

myriads in the name

of G*d.

which is why i love

him, them--us all

the more.
145 · Jan 2019
Prodigal Daughter
Onoma Jan 2019
i raised her chin,

her hair fell.

an ivied wall.

courage flared her

nostrils.

she somehow wavered

change.

she's what crept thru

air tight poetry.

breathing the life

of a prodigal daughter.
145 · Mar 2019
Great Music
Onoma Mar 2019
this too shall

pass--in the

playing.

while mining

your emotions

for new material~
145 · Jan 2019
Your Holiest Ghost
Onoma Jan 2019
your holiest ghost

divvied up atoms

to pay for the gas

it takes to drive thru

night time.
144 · Mar 2024
Re-orgasming Eights
Onoma Mar 2024
there's a sketchup--

of a unisex,

Gray's Anatomy

figure.

utterly saturated with

micro/macro eights...

re-orgasming.
Onoma Dec 2024
an almost normative nonchalance to his
absurdism--as if it's just fine because he's
doing it.
there he was, making good on what was
not--rather than what was there.
wala's quick brush of a gestured once-over, where gravity sank.
left pinky claw in his mouth, with the false modesty of a centerfold.
the frills of nausea knotted by abject terror & stage fright paralysis, was the confection of his presence.
buddy boy Beelzebub standing in the living room like: 'what do you think?'
a red-light district glow about him, Tartarean yarn's hypertrichosis, curly Tim Burtonesque horns.
unhealthy *****-colored eyes, with
see-no-evil reptilian slits & fangs that ate
their punchline.
he just stood there--coring out a cave of
grandiosity, then leapt to the refrigerator.
turned it on its head by tapping his claws on the freezer door, a little hunger strike.
grabbed the magnet of a Monarch Butterfly, forced a few flits & dropped it
on the floor as with the lot of them.
tip-hooved back into the living room & said: 'the lamp's bulb in your study needs changing--it's been driving me bat-**** crazy, I need you to see clearly so I can manipulate your knowledge.'
'Pretty soon you'll have two pulses & two heartbeats.'
144 · Feb 2020
Diogenes
Onoma Feb 2020
Diogenes was the

first punk--an ancient

Greek stoic philosopher.

who pre-valued shock,

before it became affected.

spitting, barking, *******,

******* in public--living in

a giant cracked clay ***.

spray painting dyslexic aphorisms,

and riddling the togas of fellow

philosophers with safety pins.

**** as a dog, hard as nails--

busting in on Plato's lecture

just to topple his word-castle

with a storming remark.

by the time Alexander The Great

got to him, he was already a famous freak.

so Alexander proposed he provide him

with anything he wished.

Diogenes said something like: get the ****

out of my way, you're blocking the sun.
144 · Feb 2019
Flights of Shame
Onoma Feb 2019
wall to wall

light

burns through

rooms

like angels

waking in

beds with

demons.

painstaking

flights of shame.
144 · Mar 2023
Rosy Sashes
Onoma Mar 2023
rosy sashes

skip their beat--

to alleviate their

meteoric rise

through a squiggly

crystal.
144 · Oct 2021
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.
144 · Aug 2024
Seizuring Digits to Mushin
Onoma Aug 2024
the seizuring digits of a grade school  

calculator, forgotten in a pouch put away

for storage.

as the half man/half butterfly morphosis of a Zen

master disturbs the meditation of his master's,

master.

being cut clear in half with his stick, through the

manicured flatness of sand granules retracing

their distinctive sounds.

while they adhere to its rigidity.
*Mushin means: "no mind" in Zen.
144 · Jun 2021
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.
144 · Dec 2020
Inelegancies
Onoma Dec 2020
time can not apportion

her inelegancies--

know which baby to

steal candy from.

until her framework

of anesthetizing voids

take numbness aback--

with the succor of the

sweetest candy left to

the devices of a baby.
144 · Feb 2021
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.
144 · Jan 2022
Folded
Onoma Jan 2022
the walls

fold neatly

like a napkin

on a  prepared

table.

spoons resting

more indifferently

than knives that

will cut meat.
144 · Feb 2021
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.
143 · Jan 14
Panopticon
Onoma Jan 14
there's a tower for every watcher,

you're not the only one that sees--

i mean right from where you see.

forget behavior modification reduced

to paranoia-- you're observationally

angulated to a star.

you & a priest may stroll around a dim

screen in your minds, while the priest

guesses who you are.

just as a guard may be picking at his

cuticles while the necks of prisoners

needlessly tingle.

what is it that feels watched--from

genitalia to 665 secrets cutting a key for

the next & last?

the Panopticon creates a surveillance

pressure cooker--which's rudimentary

compared to the supernatural.
143 · Aug 2021
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.
Onoma Jun 2024
we boarded a cheese bus--

thirty something of us, at

leisurely rates of precocity.

to the: Bronx Zoo.

a field trip, highly

experimental.

thundercracking with beings

of open air & glass entrapments.

there unto the rightfulness

of memory, maybe mine?

a coiled Anaconda sleeping

like a Micheline tire.
143 · Dec 2019
The Desert Washed Away
Onoma Dec 2019
running with my animal

year of birth...where there's

strength in freedom.

where the war cry of pounding

hooves have their visions of

water.

drinking it in, in peace...where

the weight is lifted my love,

and the desert washed away.
143 · Feb 2024
A Lion in His Basement
Onoma Feb 2024
who doesn't like a tablecloth

whose interim offers a hand

of marinara sauce--

familia style, sighing before

a spread?

Joe Gallo face-planting a

rhetorical question outside

of: Umberto's Clam House.

he dug beat poetry...

& keeping a lion in his

basement.
Onoma Dec 2023
a king cobra throws on

its hood, to dismiss the

mystery school of its

elliptical optics.

with the armless/legless

deadweight of cold blood

cocked upward.

staving off an entire river--

with the two ashen marks

of duality burnt into the

sides of its hood.
143 · Apr 2020
Walkway Counting Feet
Onoma Apr 2020
drills shrilly nosed into plywood

as storefronts were shuttered along

the walkway.

hazy tapwater sunlight diluted the

dogwood tree planted at center.

as a patch of pigeons were thrown

above it, whose wings became black

sticks across its white blooms.

frantically searching for the old man that

would normally feed them.

up ahead that brolic, mustachioed Puerto Rican

street vendor has been unstapled from the

sidewalk--his unheard cadences hustling the

numbers off watches.
143 · Jun 2021
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.
142 · Feb 2019
Not at War
Onoma Feb 2019
could you handle my

love if i pointed it

at you?

i'm not at war with you

rose--put down your

guard.

you've been bled enough.
142 · Oct 2020
Tower and Eidolon
Onoma Oct 2020
Tower and eidolon, three and a half

times removed--stand still of no man's

land, coiled up in The Alone.

Parashakti...consort, companion, partaker


of Shiva laid down upon her uninhabited


hermitage, and watched as she sleeps.

the way water surrounds the brinks of land--

eating at its sides.

Shiva...tower and eidolon, emptying aloneness

into aloneness.

upon the third distillation, emptiness tears in half.

a half removed from three times.

as Shiva sinks the centers of Oceans that circumambulate

his Ajna, overhanging a crescent moon as a beacon

risen Again.
142 · Aug 2021
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.
142 · Feb 24
To Peach Thus
Onoma Feb 24
A peach swallows three dimensionality

to the pit, to peach thus.

White heat sensuously cleaved, then

bound tight.

A searching rash that overspreads

yellow-orange/orange-yellow, too slow

for pounding juice.

The indomitable ruler of unseen flesh--

that loves the teeth it never conceived of.

Resting on a lace napkin driven to

accentuation--on a cream wood kitchen

table.
142 · Jun 2021
Spread its Salt
Onoma Jun 2021
the razor's edge of a

blackening wave rises to

spread its salt apart...

finely slicing a sky with

no particular height.

as an errand boy of

nothingness is fitted for

a crown.
142 · Apr 2022
Befalls a Milky Shoulder
Onoma Apr 2022
when a touch

too many dream cycles

have been entered.

a certain kind of

record skips.

as a gorgeous mane

of hair befalls a milky

shoulder.
142 · May 2021
Spotted by a Solitariness
Onoma May 2021
hyphenating light

in a breaking Heart.

the softening gyres

of silence...comely as

balloons around the

wrists of tree limbs.

reviewing the terrible

pull of a string let go.

a deflated head made

of color.

spotted by a solitariness,

that wind rushes away

from.

as it moves it.
142 · Jun 2024
Passion Project
Onoma Jun 2024
more business woman than


poet, the whole corpus of said


poetry shows an assessor.


more project than passion.


clandestinely checking  in to see


if coexistence with your supposed


unconditional one may be profitable.


the real poet stands by their words


nomatter what.
142 · Mar 2023
Genuine Watchman
Onoma Mar 2023
Chopin's playing

at the back of a

fast food joint--

he needs bread.

all sorts of shapely

people show up--

between his fingers.

as he separates oil from

water--a genuine

watchman of tides.
141 · Dec 2019
Apologetic Signals
Onoma Dec 2019
soak her in...adjusting her ***

on her tHrOnE, biting her nails

and masking the mask.

kicking away like a newborn

Christ, modeling the couple--

rallied, tinseled, and ribboned

round by the support of family

and friends.

spine sending apologetic signals

all over the place, both friendly and

unfriendly radio stuff.

as a patch of snow splats and

melts on her crown.

yes, This is Christmas...
*To be continued.
Onoma Feb 2020
the butcher's Son out in public

coming down with world-family...

subdued at the four.

whose circle in extremis encircles

till a center is visible.

bindu, bled spot.

Pieta.

raining council of

clouds, whose lightning agreeance

resounds thunder.

of all that is finished, and the more.

come the faithfully subdued

at the four.

downpour.

direction-bound,

centering dances that break open

their reflections.

those

prayerful membranes

that truly envelope you--despite horrendous

deformities.

vigilant and accepting as

bloodshot eyes sleeping in the eyes of beauty...

we wan ******* of sainthood crying blood.

vividly streaked and statuesque.

recalling reality.
141 · Jun 2024
A Sensorial Kingdom
Onoma Jun 2024
a sensorial Kingdom transpired

along: Ocean City, Maryland.

its village shops rang the bell of

a scent that any verity of incense &

ginger, long to touch.

shelved starfish, baby sharks in a

jar, (blue-eyed) along strung shells

in the shape of a spiral cone.

twirling.
*Childhood vacations rock...addendum: dedicated to my best friend Chris.
141 · Feb 2019
Upon The First Step
Onoma Feb 2019
down to the very dream

of a welling black sea--

whose frothy fingers tear

out of joint.

grabbing at a mountainside...

whose natural steps are the

inexorable linkage of its

holy pinnacle.

the whole dream coheres

to a forehead, that places itself

upon the first step.
141 · Feb 2024
Across a Horsehair
Onoma Feb 2024
a quartet

plays across a

horsehair.

(you can't even

see the bow coming).

despite the bloomage

of attendant instruments.
141 · Dec 2023
I Read Me, She Shows
Onoma Dec 2023
the sandy smoke of the

moon, explodes with waves

that rose above dark water.

spreading the ruffled shells

of Japanese fans.

fluttering the nucleic pearls

of her crystal *****.

I read me, she shows.
Onoma Oct 2024
a rumpled gentlemen with his head on a desk--
the bent light of his mind snaps with an
aberrative upthrust.
Goya's: "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"--
as bats fall to fly with a staggering jaggedness, the
twilight goes underground.
they're a flexuous miasma above the gentleman's head,
or like snakes climbing the glass of an aquarium.
a leathery dark with a bald purple gleam, smoked
clean through.
reveals the wickedly behooved whites of eyes,
expanding with what will be consumed.
this kind of sleep does more than warm death over,
the sleeper is made to watch himself do things--with
no electric blue escape route.
141 · Mar 2024
Harmonium-fold
Onoma Mar 2024
discos columned

out of a Dorian

pillar.

harmonium-fold

good graces.
141 · Jun 2023
That-That-That
Onoma Jun 2023
the stripes of a

tiger slip down

soundlessly.

peeking thru bars

of free passage.

wandering around

in a breeze that only

wants to contain what

moves: that-that-that

singular

touch.
*The Black Crowes--She Talks To Angels
141 · Jul 2024
Pudge of Situatedness
Onoma Jul 2024
the whiff of a prize pig on a

dank, misty morning--corn stuck

in your teeth.

let us make a shroud of that mist

as your intent, minus mystery.

the pudge of situatedness superseding

promises.

squeals of self-love slobbering on

squeals of self-hatred, the later

should be your siphoning state.

dis-gus-ting...
140 · Mar 2024
Hypostasis
Onoma Mar 2024
the sun squares off the tiles of northern

European roofing--with the bucking

prims of tucked shadows.

the shred-throat jellied gurgles of

starlings, rehashing into piercing tweets

throughout the whitening gold of dusk.

the central tutelage of a silence, outlined

by sounds of inbreaking traffic.
140 · Dec 2021
Soft Spot
Onoma Dec 2021
untrue north's

chronic darkness

sinks into the

soft spot of the

newborn savior's

skull.
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