Dalton Bauder: Favorites

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Eureka

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

wandabitch

Eureka

A rare old fashion curiosity
in a modern day book,
took away my breath
in one moment,
of exquisite living.

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Lacuna

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Ryan Kristobak

Lacuna

A hole for the whole;
Clarion lacuna.
The cheval glass so immaculate, coeval.
You will find yourself when you sever the sound.
But even some trees reach for the ground.
Inadequate, a voluntarily tethered thrall.
Catatonic canvas;
Goblin shark lockjaw.

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Albert Camus

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Tom Orr

Albert Camus

"A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously."

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

The Visitor

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Olga Valerevna

The Visitor

You make your way inside me for I have let you in
Then feel your way around sending shivers down my skin
Occupy my thoughts with the remnants of your soul
And wait until subconsciousness begins to take its toll
Plot the roads you've travelled upon my body's veins
Track the footprints you have laid, release me from my chains
The moment I am able and willing to unveil
All the secret passages you missed along the trail
I trust that you will listen and comprehend, assured
But I'll not make the judgment on what it is you've heard
For it is not my place dear, to separate our lives
Or carve your being out of mine by using words as knives

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Welcome the Wrong House

Dec 2012 Dalton Bauder

Olga Valerevna

Welcome the Wrong House

The cut's too deep I'll not survive
so I'll keep spewing til i die

This ****** water tastes like wine
and all the drunkards come to dine

Their plates sit full upon my spine
the sustenance my very mind

A feast for those who seek to bind
the souls that they can somehow blind

And I'm the host, it's come my time
to pour the life out of my vines

Their fork an axe, it draws the line
suspends the truth they cannot find

I close my eyes to hide the crime
the one they want is not inside

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Eloquent

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

wandabitch

Eloquent

among the ashes, as you rise you savage, just on a harmonica's twang.
tell what you saw in the future
what Ga you saw in the eyes,
just to show
what you really keep.
Lusting heart, loving part,
come away with me.

paying the street with coins, money man.
broken dollar bills will not due.
the Whole is needed the half won't pass,
this ride is always for free.

don't burn a hole in your smile,
with nicotine in your lips.

eat up you'll need the strength,
we dance tomorrow.

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

I can see myself in you

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Olga Valerevna

I can see myself in you

She is everyone, he is everywhere
Talking fast and walking strange without a care

Pick and choose the words you bruise

They're apples falling from a tree
Once bitten, you ingest reality

And skin becomes the center of the battlefield
A place that you have entered but forgot your shield

Feel the fleets pass over every inch of you

When men saw hiding spots inside themselves
They became protectors of unruly cells

Reflecting that which summons such passivity
And welcomes what's elusive all too easily

Because remember, there is no mask on a mime

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Möbius

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Ryan Kristobak

Möbius

As crepuscular embers fracture window panes,
The mind wares the solace of this paragon host.
Destitute, edentulous, declawed.
Is joy only to be found in the exchange of hands and throats?
And I took more than my fathers name;
I took his blood and his voice and his pain.
So what is it that separates?
Am I the emanation of original thought or am i just the sum of the harbingers' tale?
Am I never alone or am I bound to wade in the vapid wake?
"Could we be the limbs of a möbius soul?"
The panglossian being wonders.
And wanders.

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

☉

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Connor Smith

☉

Static enough to wane,
my iotas oscillate out
as the last
eye
shuts to dusk.

Dew through a pellucid mind
collected in what was my body's basin;
This whispering pool
contriving my new face.

Where countenance radiates concentrically
Up, up into the Ibis' spacial noise
coalescing Tefnut's will and mine
to ecstasy
as rain.

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

a sea of solid earth

Nov 2012 Dalton Bauder

Olga Valerevna

a sea of solid earth

the long grass tickles my back as we lay beneath the sun's warm blanket
in this place, who I am and what we are become one and the same if we just let

let's play here together
please stay near forever

because I need you, see, like these fields need the rain
put your roots in my ground and we'll harvest the grain

A lover's poem I guess.
Title taken from a song by The Dear Hunter