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130 · Feb 12
Planet as Method Actor
Onoma Feb 12
There's a planet that's been method

acting in my head, passionate as a

coloring child.

Drifting like a sign you can't dispell with

the logic you were looking for it.

It seeks to embody the gross

underestimation of space at large,

without grand aspirations.

As if to ask: is a planet larger than the

mind--the planet says: don't answer that,

I'm inexorable.

As the planet balances on a tenuous

black square--for my sake, on an axial

tilt lending itself to delivery.
130 · Sep 2021
Blackened Moss
Onoma Sep 2021
blackened moss

in a zen garden.

distant from

silence.
130 · Nov 2024
Orange Sleight of Hand
Onoma Nov 2024
he paused at an intersection--with a
pedestrial roundup at his back.
an orange hand's superhuman staving
power instigated a muted version of:
"Waiting for Godot".
then an orange sleight of hand's
arrhythmical numeric funnel, bumped
into a walking lime figure.
he then turned around as if wrested from
consternation, having thoughtfully
weighed the group dynamic of intimate
friendship.
almost like moonwalking with Nintendo One graphics, he paced their unscripted
diaspora.
blockade-wide arms outalking his mouth as he stated: 'you know what...you guys should go without me.'
what followed was the hammering down
on a crosswalk's piano keys--that melted
into a pending desensitization.
130 · Oct 2020
What Undoes Bend and Knee
Onoma Oct 2020
this planetary dervish, central

to its obsession, sign and seal...

in the privacy of space blackened

with the hum of orbit.

rendering hole fulfilled by that dance--

all-consuming, a Heart's only thought

in the wash of blood.

vital silhouettes of prayer, as sights set in

the mind's eye...bewildering focus.

concrescence of a crown's expansion,

its pride and joy encircling supreme

nobility.

what undoes bend and knee to grant

a repose that need not be sought after

again.
Onoma Sep 2024
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculpted his face
sixty times--an arcanum of flesh's malleable
appeals to a skull.
his: "Character Heads" yanked out in front of
a mirror's propriety, a natural madman
exceeding a chimp's ****** expressions.
the inverse catatonia of a pickled alien--
where colors don't clash.
Franz believed he was hunted by the:
Spirit of Proportion--due to his mastery of
sculpture, its punishable likenesses.
whose features' puff-**** brands ether with
magick, the idolatrized signal of rebellion.
his sixty: "Character Heads" were meant to ward off
this equalizer of art--sort of like how Vlad the Impaler
stuck countless decapitated heads on pikes, outside
his castle walls, to unnerve enemies.
*Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor.
130 · Jan 2019
My Latest Head
Onoma Jan 2019
i tuck

your hair

behind your

ear, to bite the

softness out

of a relished

****.

than finger you

from the back

till you echo

in my latest

head.
130 · Oct 2020
Blow Through Shangri-La
Onoma Oct 2020
prayer wheels are being

spun by a herd of windhorses,

thundering on all planes.

soothsaying sounds of unbounding

lay of lands, tumult and constant

arrival.

urgency in passing, outrunning

urgency in passing.

glassy eyes wearing the kicks of

hooves and speeded ground...

the herd of wind horses due to

blow through Shangri-La.

whereat they will die down, as

their Heart receives them.
129 · Nov 2024
Constant Unturning
Onoma Nov 2024
the omni-plumage of the

earth's curvature, is sculpted by

a constant unturning.

which sunbeams pass through--

to stall in perforated mountains.

as if taking tissue samples of gods.
129 · Apr 2019
Nature Plea Bargains
Onoma Apr 2019
watching sparrows

**** in quarantined

city parks makes me want

to protect rare space.

as ladies break hips at

the raw--nature plea

bargains.

a predawn fuzziness of

erogenous zones.
129 · Jul 2024
Old Man Cantate
Onoma Jul 2024
an old man bent forward,

just above his cane--ambled

along a park trail.

paused to speak to a little boy

in a carriage, the enmeshment

of every birdsong on planet earth

came out of his mouth.

the little boy laughed hysterically.
Onoma Nov 2024
at the very least, another life can be

eked out--by what goes unnoticed in

any given day.

a thing will always change with the

perceiver, even color is colored.

the sheer overawing & unquantifiable

detail is as matter-of-fact as imagination

itself.

begin & end anywhere you choose--

even though there's no beginning or

ending to the interactiveness.
129 · Feb 2019
Wedding Dress
Onoma Feb 2019
your auric

glow's fragrant...

saints of all stripes

pile up to lift that

wedding dress.
129 · Jun 2021
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.
128 · Sep 2020
Whilst Reconfiguring 8
Onoma Sep 2020
watch whose way

will have it.

a dwarf  squeezing

the juice out of a

mountain.

a bee watching the

mouth of honey

whilst reconfiguring

8.
128 · Oct 2018
Promise to Bloom
Onoma Oct 2018
i want to give you

a piggyback ride while

laughing out kiddie gold.

till the silvery sashays of

stars say we tore up the

town.

only if you promise to

bloom.

i can be like that...you know.

you're cordially invited.

you're already here...one small

step for woman~
128 · Dec 2020
Snowcams
Onoma Dec 2020
those

solitary poles in the axial

spin of their snow globe.

haloed convenants clustering

anonymous eyes, broadcasting

a running channel of real time

dream.

stranger than a passerby, stranger

still the lonely viewer of the screen.

exposure and nonexposure to

an interplay of elements beyond

weather, yet being driven by the force

behind it all.

were it that a passerby would stop

and look up at a snowcam, with the

feeling of being looked at by a stranger.

to the astonishment of a lonely viewer,

an intimate spell of white suspends

the snowflakes.

an untranslatable moment, with no

lapse but the seeming release of snowflakes

thereafter...

and an unbroken spell.
128 · Feb 2024
Maria Callus' Truancy
Onoma Feb 2024
as winter cuts

eighth grade chorus

class--

snowflakes dangle

from strings.

doing the same.
128 · Sep 2024
Pet Crow
Onoma Sep 2024
there's a crow i keep around,

that will never forget my face.

it watches all forms of life play dead,

nothing gets passed it--so it can not

play dead.

nor can it play alive, it doesn't exist in

any sense--yet it will never forget my face,

because it will never have to remember it.

i say crow, as i say pet--where associative images

come to mind, yours or mine?

you have words for almost everything--even me,

you call me: nothing, ness as of...there isn't

even space.
128 · Sep 2018
Find Who
Onoma Sep 2018
find who

put me

in this

state of

yoga...

just leave

me out

of it.
128 · Sep 2020
To Dance Off Your Seeing
Onoma Sep 2020
change never leaves

The Heart of Hearts,

nor changelessness.

wisdom is what's salvaged

as it writes away.

can't you see that Shiva

believes he exists because

he believes in Shakti with

his Heart of Hearts?

can't you see that Shakti doesn't

believe she exists because she believes

in Shiva with her Heart of Hearts?

you are that very energy that

upholds that very seeing.

you laughed off that very

sight, to dance off your seeing.

when your Heart of Hearts

presented itself as the illusion

of that seeing.

all I-I see is through Us.

~Aum Namah Shivaya~
128 · Jul 2024
A Reiterating Plain
Onoma Jul 2024
the awful fatigue of leashed wrath--

the devourment of all other emotion.

one of the most frustrating & loneliest

primacies.

a lion's infrasound shaking the housemates

of organs & bones.

a reiterating plain, onward straight to onward--

a massive drain at its center.

stymied blood let out, down it--a red waterfall

transfusing the earth's gut.
128 · Jun 2024
Between Wetness & Color
Onoma Jun 2024
there's something about

a cardinal, flitting across

saturated woodchips after

a downpour.

as if throwing back air in a

looksy of: fly.

whose tree cover tantalizes

a resonance that treats the peace

between wetness & color.
128 · Feb 2024
To Leak Out of That Mean
Onoma Feb 2024
a golden snail's shell

dithers the string

of its wound top.

as to leak out of that

mean.

with sensitivities

parallel to the sun

coming down with the flu.
128 · May 2019
In Memory
Onoma May 2019
the wind is

made of

final exhalations.

blowing in memory

of those.

as windows left open

a crack on this

may day.

to clear the air.
128 · Oct 2018
Broken Water
Onoma Oct 2018
Shiva rocks

a womb on

his forehead...

just to marvel

at Shakti's

broken water.

those ripples impale

his core...

every drop sets his

eyes upward~
128 · Mar 2018
White Their Wander
Onoma Mar 2018
as eyes
eye
their
apple,
cross
with the
run of
red.
down's
round's
up,
and
a napkin
is
spread
so ants can
white
their
wander.
Onoma Mar 25
January made any movement feel extraneous, as if something nudged to
haunting irresponse.
Sing Sing Prison was beyond all that, but
never more there--yet not even its
manifestation would have it.
The Mahicannituk (Hudson River)
followed the land two ways--to conceive
more than water.
Ruth Snyder saw that as Sing Sing walled
alive--smothered her prefume, crouched
over lights & coughed out iron.
Queens was a place, this was not--food ate her, water drank her.
A place to make out surroundings that
don't want to be seen, that are put forth
just for deprivation.
"Ruthless Ruth" appealed to her thin frame, dropped it like a hankerchief on
the cold floor.
Almost convincing herself that one's true
nature is unpunishable--as she stood up
again.
"Old Sparky" (name for the electric chair) was seated across from an indefinite coming--its unapproachable presence growing into its features.
Ruth was roaring with the twenties as her lover tried to go thru her--while her
husband wagged his tail somewhere.
So Ruth enlightened his sexless naivety,
with a couple of cold puddles outside of a
long lay.
Her lover (Judd Gray) smacking back his suspenders in answer to a Who Done It.
Their body-exploring-finallys & whispering hot sophications--saw a door
kick open to the rest of the world.
A lot came on in, Ruth needed luxuriating, to writhe on high-end furniture.
See again: "Old Sparky", now it's all about
"Old Sparky"--it was never not about
"Old Sparky".
Led by the hand to a modern-day witch burning, of course there was an audience--they arrived in cathartically shaped veils.
A latched heap, held by safety--holding their peace.
Figuring into the law, & willing to watch
a subcutaneous thunderstorm.
Especially Tom Howard of the New York Daily News, who had a camera strapped to his ankle--expressly told it was for:
Private Eyes Only.
His Life's Work was strapped to his ankle--as The Mahicannituk's current flowed.
He lifted up his trouser cuff & squeezed
the shutter buld, then ungripped it.
The room met the designated height of the switch as it was flipped, its current
flowed.
Ruth conceived something more than electricity, as she made hairpin turns--
blowing toward unsuccessful ejection.
She cocked her head calmly as she watched herself beat leathered husks,
her scalp smoking like twigs.
The witch they came for surged upward, & was restrained as if she were reacting to Latin commands.
If she had the **** for a last meal, a menu put to taste congealed & what thirst there was ran dry.
Tom got his picture, & Ruth was blurrily
venting mid-fry on the front page of The Daily News.
Which read: "DEAD!", the first public picture of its kind.
*Ruth Snyder of Queens was executed via the electric chair, in Sing Sing Prison for murdering her husband. On Jan 12, 1928.
127 · Mar 2019
Symmetry Loathes
Onoma Mar 2019
symmetry appeals

to us--

yet Michelangelo

& Leonardo da Vinci

loathed one another.
127 · Dec 2024
Stair of Your Philosophy
Onoma Dec 2024
it was done through you on April Fool's Day 1876--Offenbach, Germany.
even so, irony is for the pairers of unlikelies, wowed by what poetic mystique they can milk.
you were carefully stacking fresh copies of the first part of your magnum opus:
"The Philosophy of Redemption"--on the floor of your apartment.
the weather must've been hiding evidence of winter, with sloven chills hasting its spine.
a raw cusp of bipolarities, like an unwelcome lovesickness.
you were winter for thirty-four years, its
last will & testament.
it was ****** upon you with your mother's ****--no one could see where that would go but you.
as far as death can go as a religion, it got into you as the only purifier.
there was Phillip, death & its world.
it was more than the transitory triteness of a: "living-death", you were its absolutist.
you gave nothing time to transition to that inevitability, death was--inherent & imminently supreme.
constance with no need of reminder, this
rootless seed durated until your philosophy was realized.
strange was the way that had you, finding it appalling for heads to rear at the way you were--you published under a pseudonym.
outside was a pregnant music box, atypical sounds made by soundlessness.
your four walls unfortified, they stood after the fact while before it.
you stepped on to the stacked stair of your philosophy--to the word.
as you were given to a noose whose knot
tightened with more confliction than you.
*Inspired by the life & death of German philosopher/poet: Phillip Mainlander.
127 · Jan 2024
Reframed Unofficially
Onoma Jan 2024
there's a hall of mirrors,

that shard configurations of:

Picasso's: '''Mademoiselle".

unstruck poses, pelted by

an apple seed--banging

against glass.

until reframed...unofficially.
127 · Apr 2018
Murmuring Thread
Onoma Apr 2018
the needles that threaded

the sod, secure their

green breakthroughs.

by piercing a blue curvature,

all that murmuring thread--

soothes the hypersensitive

ears of flowers.
Onoma Jan 6
purgatory is going to be sick on its path,

unable to hold down being used.

they all end up there, where?

purgatory doesn't even know.

it's the heaviness of their visualizations,

the present's crushing half-light.

so purgatory is a banished overseer, that

has no substance save for their

visualizations.

black & white images struggling in

swampish murk--with brilliantly vivid

gasps.

people, places or things one thinks

they've committed to memory suffer

this--I myself get high off that spookiness.

spy purgatory stray from its path like a

doomed Romantic.

I visualize our back brick wall facing the

garden at night--with the certitude no one

is observing it.

the crept summonings that strain to see

as above ground, so below.

does the impish rush I get--lay into its

brick, alter its stalemated energy?

I know so.
126 · Apr 2019
Namasteing Ants
Onoma Apr 2019
i'm crawling with

silence--

as a linear

troop of ants stand

upright to namaste.

the breadcrumbs

they drop deafens us.
126 · Jul 2020
Sound Sleep
Onoma Jul 2020
Mahakali

waves her ten

arms wildly over

consciousness to

restore it.

brandishing the

weaponry of mudras.

realizing in fits why

he who she attempts to

restore sleeps so soundly.
126 · Nov 2024
Not About November
Onoma Nov 2024
streetlights stood like counterintuitive
candle snuffers, or surgeons passing
out with their headlights on.
as with that which cannot be named, the
broader sense of any word: wind.
linearly gone, its goneness blew in tandem--as if direction's not to be believed.
with no sound, if it weren't thru things as
they were--yet sound became of wind.
there is no clarifier of these obfuscations,
i myself was held as responsible as the
night.
black hood on, with all the solitariness of
of a walk wandering into something far
more in its element by extension.
coldly slumped over, leaves ripped away
from, then to--(disambiguation)?
not quite.
126 · Dec 2019
The Garden is Dense
Onoma Dec 2019
you can't seem

to exist without

being a thorn in

someone's side.

the garden is dense--

and the growth wild.
126 · Jan 13
Film Viewer's Obsession
Onoma Jan 13
it's this film viewer's obsession, this film

viewer's established meditation--what

was captured before his birth.

when film entered into a covenant with

consciousness--the dream became lucid.

immortality is no longer a leap of faith,

corporeality is what makes cameos--not

the viewer.

I Am acutely drawn into footage

before my birth--i look for myself & am

everywhere.

somehow more familiar than myself,

then wonder if i was out there as

someone.

swept into colored footage of Manhattan's

bustle one hundred years ago, how its

pace bursts through slowed fluxes--where

all film is posthumous.

one would have to view nothing but one

frame lapsing into another, & still miss

its breadth.

how can one view film with

consciousness & not see through it all?
126 · Nov 2023
Stuffed With Laughter
Onoma Nov 2023
a comet goldfish

left to the orange

imagination of its own

measurement.

turning water into

wind--lithely segwaying

around a mountainess

jade Buddha.

stuffed with laughter.
126 · May 2019
Singulated Triad
Onoma May 2019
white rapids that smoke

sage off the faces of boulders--

till their singulated triad oceans.

where cool peace ripples

fathoms spread soft for parting

clouds.

as the sun shimmers the white

transfiguration of great voids.
126 · Nov 2023
Eleven Air Dry White Sheets
Onoma Nov 2023
eleven air dry white sheets

furl against another eleven

air dry white sheets.

Handheld invariance of wind.

so the wide of their field can go

without clotheslines.

whatever unfurls...sends through

weightless stone-bearers.

their palms making their way through

those white sheets.
126 · Feb 19
Idiom Wars
Onoma Feb 19
The following is an idiomatic coupling

where quotation have marks flapped

away: In the realm of possibility,

everything happens for a reason.

The above sentence seems cogent

enough, but is mutually exclusive.

Which idiom negates the other?

Is the realm of possibility predetermined,

is that the implication--or is it a chaotic

outcome?

It seems completely reinforced by:

everything happens for a reason.

Which of its own seems to imply an

ordered, higher power.

Yet--it also seems completely reinforced

by: in the realm of possibility, as if:

everything happens for a reason, is

what washes up--is the outcome of

possibility.

The former idiom implies a forgone

higher power, & a rawly chaotic outcome.

The later idiom implies a higher power,

& a purely harmonic outcome.

Taken at face value, these idioms negate

one another--yet paradoxically seem to

sync chaos & harmony.

It's almost as if they give rise to a deeper

meaning when juxtaposed.
126 · Dec 2019
Beat to Death by Memory
Onoma Dec 2019
spoon feed me digestible

moosh...baby me.

all i ask is that you look

into my eyes like your

life depended on it.

then we can have something

for once.

where your foregone movement

might make me hold your hand.

strong enough to be beat to death

by memory.
126 · Feb 2019
Karma Plays It
Onoma Feb 2019
samskaras

groove

the record...

karma

plays

it~
126 · Dec 2023
Scrooge's Candy Cane
Onoma Dec 2023
scrooge's candy cane takes

another adaptational lick.

whose twining red has gone

thru the thinnest sugary white.

supporting the weight of three

unseen visitations, where he's

the reigning host of a fourth

dimensional mime.

his right hand waving down a

glunch, then waving up a smile.
126 · Feb 17
Mindscape of a Tray
Onoma Feb 17
Sunday can be as desperate as Napoleon
escaping from the island of Elba, on a
ship called: "Inconstant".
Factor in cold rain on the back of a winter coat, which can feel injurious.
As you backhandedly swipe to assess
seepage--a punitive glaze on your
hand, as if touch acts confused to ride out
reaction.
It's when your hand becomes the total
amount of precip your region received.
All of a sudden it's Sunday again--& I
observed the demographic plunge certain
major fast food chains take in sharing a
location.
No partition, just a judiciously open space
between two legendary counters.
That godawful defibrillator lighting stuck
to the ceiling.
Two distinctive sumtotal aromas that
run thru memories as firsts--somehow
refuse to coalesce, creating an aromatic
fissure.
This undoubtedly stimulates indecision
in customers, which sees a percentage
opting for both.
With the proviso that such diplomacy will
probably ruin the experience.
Or regretting the chain they purchased,
vice versa.
It's not like a food court, which's like a
stadium rock concert--where sound as
scent can get away from you.
It's an up close & personal concert.
That said, something about seeing a few
people eating alone on a Sunday had
such an anticlimactic sadness to it.
They appeared prolonged, adaptively rooted to what's designed to get them out.
They weren't going to leave until the
mindscape of a tray was worked out.
126 · Mar 2020
Hang on the Walls and Fly
Onoma Mar 2020
a crow's broken beak,

its half-twisted parch--

the grounds slow drink.

enmeshed in sheer swarms

of grass, oily pulpage of feather,

in-flight flailing of a nightlong figure.

carving the reign of its outspread crucifix,

an eyeless glint of a nocturnal center.

in a mansion whose white rooms wander

into one another, commending the symbol

of the crow's alchemy.

hang on the walls and fly.
126 · Nov 2023
Agon
Onoma Nov 2023
if purple was

an anatomical exposition--

a blade would meet

its two sides.

so a Rose could retain

its blood.

it gratefully has.
126 · Feb 2021
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.
125 · Feb 2020
Extra Light Scratches
Onoma Feb 2020
a jittering small white feather

set to the tip of a branch.

seen through the derelict watch

of unclean windows.

the tractionless, extra light scratches

of a waterbug on the wooden floor.

the monstrous ingression of traffic

heard in a truck's gasp-growl.
125 · Apr 2024
Aberrated Peak
Onoma Apr 2024
a ravening intensity wants an

ongoing plane after peak experience.

there's a lopsidedness that slinks off

what evenly secures bliss.

this faithful deformity starts to show

up earlier & earlier--before arriving.

thru the inevitable dread of what it

will throw off.
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