Religion
the bullet
that loads
in your gun

Projecting
its damage
belief
zero-sum

Exclusion
delusion
its sights
center mass

To ****
nonbelievers
the infidel
class

(The New Room: December, 2023)

Like it
dislike it …
it is
what it is
If written
unsmitten
all fate
in the wind
Rising
or falling
the mixture
the same
True joy
in the
baking
—whose icing remains

(1st Book Of Prayers: December, 2023)

At the
Event Horizon
‘No Exit’
leading in
Front to back
side to side
entropic
rim to rim
A blacker hole
a deeper truth
beyond just
right or wrong
Light imprisoned
no way out
entrapping
—weak and strong

(Villanova University: December, 2023)

The further out your writing goes
—the further in you are

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Love fades away
life goes on
Music divorcing
words to a song

Into the darkness
into the night
Melody orphaned
absent the light

Love fades away
time stands still
Harmonies vagrant
memories chill

Voices celestial
echo alone
Love once abeyant
—life is disowned

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

A moment of truth
a century of lies
The left hand deflects
what the right hand decries  

A little bit pregnant
the ending begins
A monster gestating
—and living within

(The New Room: December, 2023)

You can’t embrace
the moment forever
whose verity
at essence ungrained

By definition
it must rename itself
once mentioned
decried and disclaimed

What came upon you
to die in place
where vacuums exit
in time and space

Regenerating
from life’s cocoon
and starting over
—Amayasvan moon

(The New Room: December, 2023)