How much profit
have you made
on your greed

The bursar
of hell
wants to know

How has your
avarice
lived unrestrained

A glutton
those starving
in tow

How many times
have you dealt
from the bottom

Betting
the players
were blind

Sleeving that ace
that sends
you to hell

In debt
to the devil
—consigned

(Villanova University: November, 2023)

***** and Gomorrah
their tale retold
Ignoring scripture
the world grown cold
Semitic factions
that seek and ****
Their hate on fire
their rage instills

***** and Gomorrah
two faiths subscribe
The Quran and Bible
their fate describes
Brother kills brother
the hour late
“Vengeance Is Mine”
—damnations fate

(The New Room: November, 2023)

Pulling the curtains
down on today
Shutting the windows
doors locked from the street
Putting the cat out
trouble abeyant
My house becomes quiet
—the past is asleep

(Dreamsleep: Ocotber, 2023)

The freedom to gather
the freedom to wander
—the freedom to disobey

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)

You may conquer
on horseback
but to rule
must dismount
Pandora
lies waiting
new blood
for the fount

Napoleon
Attila
Augustus
afield
The vanquished
in chaos
till order
—congeals

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)

Every second
an infinity happens
—in relativity

(West Philadelphia: January Archive, 1973)

Cosmological constant …
quintessence confounds
Supernovae as mileposts
clear and profound
Addition subtraction
their delta expands
An orphan untethered
—the wind through the sand

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)