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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM UTC
light reveries follow her
and command that
she never again leave this city
a cast of riotous thousands
of which I had forgotten
are hanging about me, shyly
— my garland of wasted poesies hang
where no rain has fallen
and in a rather weak manner
she’s confessed in barren words
so strange and feverish,
that her blossomed eyes
made her unfit for a better place
outside in the dusted earth
it was the same story
sally forth and you will be sacrificed
here the altar shares the same hue, like me
it is dark and fiery
full of the forgotten lies
of a thousand crazy devils
far afield the handsome hide
the conquered enemy
that tyrants fear to kiss
while the young hold open their graves
Did I confess that I had almost been his wife?
the pleasant secret wasted my time
(such doomed gibberish)
I’d like to know without asking
what it was that I saw in the mirror
— smoky shadows departed
— a lavender blush exploding
into a strange madness,
by heaven, I am guilty
but like my gentle queen
I am haunted, great and solemn
she’d been amused by its black coat,
its eyes and hair,
but my wild stallion rests alone
in a purple wilderness, not quite of Damascus
where a corridor of tears are metal-steeled for glory and a monstrous cascade of
forget-me-nots are placed between my toes
so that I should love that murderer
(me, an effigy?)
it seemed a shame but which way the city?
they’d brought the men out
just so far in strength
and found that their monsters
were ruined by the twilight
I myself fancied stillness
rather like melted wax
and might lay here sleeping, forever
Apr 25, 2022
Apr 25, 2022 at 12:34 PM UTC
stuck in the bed all day, eyes glowing
dark liquid worlds
frightful icicles
an impatient and unfinished murmur
the blouse opened in the front
restores me to my common sense
(i don’t mean to encourage him, the imp)
fighting against necessity
you’d gone and spoilt everything
and even if I had fallen
looking so solemn I could not help
but to laugh in the mirror
banished within a small apartment,
dry and quiet
not for from folly or contrivance
the meek surrendered unexpected,
finding pleasure in my merest touch
unfriendly, you let yourself go
[Enter Fool.]
courtship lives (here) where there is ringing
do you love me?
do you see how I am treated?
I saw nothing but your excitement
in the confusion when the fallen angels
lagged behind the incredulous
in semi-darkness
left behind alone
one hand rests upon me
and then another
and it was not my fault
one thing has been overlooked
and you needn’t blame me
as I’ve not forgotten
like me the ghosts departed
the vain stars glittered
waiting for my reply,
and so farewell
trapped in regular intervals
the northern lights smiled brightly
but that’s enough
if they try any more than that
I don’t know what might happen
Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022 at 12:39 PM UTC
There’s nothing much more to remember
but the starlight
although I felt enough courage
to write a wild letter recalling shadows
when the sea collapsed
I bore the mockery
my mind full of color
continued its descent
past the debris and with such longing
What I had composed
was a rather short letter
a note really
intense and scrupulous
my imagination, free
I addressed you with my instincts
and asked you how you were
I imagined you, seated at the piano
repulsing criticisms and questions
Outside the wind, guilty
has no manners
curling petals
and is a great deal louder
although it doesn’t care about the color
I was in an agony
as I sensed your dismal laughter
What will I do
when danger comes?
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 12:22 PM UTC
I might as well confess
I too have memory
and must put an end to all my adventures
You seemed strangely concerned
and gave out a cry
The moon was curious and
with its hands upon my shoulders
tried to draw me close
but there’s no use talking to it
as I’ve ceased to be young
and mischief makes me tired
I lie in bed making up stories
about all the girls who marry
wandering up and down
long azure hallways illuminated
You looked at me in amazement
back at the house
and I suppose
you wanted to dance beside me
solitary as a goldfish
twisting and loosed out of hell
I felt the demure chill
of a wisteria gazing, watchful
and a little disconcerted
but I’m very fond of you
all the same
Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 12:20 PM UTC
I was trapped
by the first move
on the chessboard,
where Truth is terrible
hidden in autumn
a ****** attended, getting brown
a forsaken habit
Taking the most proper
and considerate course,
I sat by the edge of the wall watching,
dragging my shadow alongside
with bread enough for two and
ready for company.
I understood exactly when
you simply said ‘Check’
Why does the snow kiss so gently?
Wayward, with nothing to fear?
I was absolutely afraid to go!
My best room withered in summer days
when the sun barely fell
all animal heat
a flame in each other’s breath
with no chance to cool
Rising up like smoke
and sweeter drops than honey,
a young man’s love flies
and with my eyes shut, my house dreams crooked
I’ll press my whims upon
the mysteries of ghosts whose voices overwhelm large and common in the sunshine
upon that very water,
he trembled vexed
the sky nosed about
looking for present blunders
the daisies are indeed the worst of all
I’ve seen so many gardens
but none such as this
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022 at 12:26 PM UTC
Humanity came to mind
tho quickly vanished into some
summer glory
The burden stilled,
Half-talking yet half-asleep
tried to persuade me
I, being somewhat lucid
curled up in the corner
where I practiced a rude grace
not even a bribing god could intervene
I remembered that the company
within my house had finished,
enjoying too long a visit while
I peered through the window
looking for wild beasts
and a few comparisons,
actions codified,
there I saw that a single dandelion
was watching me from the pasture
across the way
and understood my situation
resentful angels are legion
and shake off their love like sweat
whereas all that was wrung from my heart
could not quite fill a cup,
to spill
Jan 30, 2022
Jan 30, 2022 at 11:55 AM UTC
carefully her shadow
looked about for the devil
who found itself
laying quite comfortably amongst
some old tarnished cutlery.
here, shadows can recall
what tall crystal forgets
She placed her knife down
alongside the other silver,
perfectly still
The kingdom is troubled,
she smoothed back her curling hair
‘my secret is that
you really should not have come back here’
alarmed,
I wandered ‘round the room
looking for two white stones and hope
but instead I found
that I am lame with memory.
she shook with jellied laughter
I implored weakly, just above a whisper,
‘Nevertheless, you must tell me
what Juliet said.’
Jan 30, 2022
Jan 30, 2022 at 11:54 AM UTC
Where the stars turn to rust,
I hit it right
and it made me wild with thought
that before we know where we are
It will be Spring
and She will enter
I did not enjoy seeing you the other day
and I wear your necklace as a reminder
of sweet things and of your seduction
my heart regards me, steadfastly
with tiny, bright eyes, and
ultimately retreats rejoicing
in the strength of ten thousand archers
golden arrows fly
so numerous they blot out the sun
Stange shadows come alive and
when shall I play for you the music of the
April rain?
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022 at 1:04 PM UTC
There was no telling as much,
always the same, the sun and the wind
somewhere
I had that chilled feeling,
certainly in early morning
as I think you very well knew.
gently, over a surface distraction that saw
the white giant crumble,
he flailing
and failing to be still
and at indistinct intervals
staggered, without consequence
flecked insane although I had not seen it
a rotten companion, solitude
a reeling, drunkard at ease in starlight
he will not hear her speak of what is
and what is not
I heard the owl cry ‘away with her!’
and how nice for me to see you
clinging to the flower spray, for now
we are older and for once safe
in our chambers
yes! consider those girls never alone
nor melancholy,
not the least of which in dreams
the moonlight made spots before me
colored
while i entered groping
singing
‘Will you dine with me on eggs and beer?’
The silkworms are but gone but words might hold me in catastrophe
The sun will go on with its usual calling
don’t fret now
it is our bedtime.
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 4, 2022 at 1:25 PM UTC
‘What’s the railroad to me?’
demanded the queen,
interrupting and pointing
‘Right over there, that nobleman passed.
Right
over
there.’
You can feel the frost above
where there is a whispering.
It’s the place that I never go to see.
Up on the slate
and then slinking around
back streets
into somewhere else.
Here, the nobleman, was
blown in from the bay.
‘He only went so far,’ the queen said,
again she’s pointing out directions
‘and then he turned ‘round,’ she demurred
‘and came right back.’
Dec 24, 2021
Dec 24, 2021 at 12:51 PM UTC
”Pinch him!” I said.
“As you wish.” she said.
On this morning of the Great Snow,
perchance,
I thought to myself
‘I am getting old’
and so I laughed out loud.
“Ah, at last, I see that you are!”
he then proclaimed,
while our wee Angus
vanished from the picnic.
“I want to come with you to Alderaan,” he said co-conspiring, and hearing that,
Jove laughed!
“O gentle Romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully.”
Dec 20, 2021
Dec 20, 2021 at 1:04 PM UTC
fading,
still nameless and splendid,
his eyes were open to
the lamp and the shadows.
"depart from the night"
he said to the infinity beneath
the dark demanding
absolution anyways.
the boy in his bones
screams at ravens
on a scarecrow in a
snow covered corn field.
time elapsed.
the man in his head is kneeling,
always kneeling.
Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 2:10 AM UTC
attenuation,
all still nameless and beautiful,
his eyes were open;
the lamp and the shadows.
"departure from the night"
he said endlessly from below
the dark demanding
forgiveness anyway.
the boy in his bones
screams of ravens
on a scarecrow in a
snow-covered corn field.
past time.
the man in his head kneels,
always kneels.
Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 3:43 AM UTC
in the doorway
on the playground
there may even be wonder
man was watching
before thought let sight
clean knowing like desire
still pitch dark
and something further back
than anyone wants to dwell in
as swiftly as country dying
on the cold floor of unsilvered future
history of nothing
I'm just having fun
Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 4:30 AM UTC
everybody’s angel bodies
find happening midnight
on Kansas pavements
hipsters’ motherwords are wholely robed by time
instant everything is ordinary
buggered city immortals --
annoyed, parentless, marijuana everymans
swiftly digging unknown eternity
groaning strange in the long mysterious night
roaring, vibrating kindness
from their holy tongues
blazing inner hideous human gold
draining ***** forever
draining everything
forever -
Moloch, Buddha, Abyss
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 2:07 AM UTC
Old gentle vague dark sea
stars uncoffined above
my drummer grave
blind of age,
meet Mr. Numb Feelgood
he is dying - chasing smoke,
following a blind parade
wanderin’ anywhere forked like Yes
at every dusty, homely, strange-eyed landmark
until driven deep down dead
Dear old diamonds,
my sleepy southern song spell fades ,
my past was a young clown
dancing, swingin' my magic heels
raging and cursing death’s grip on time
Now, I feel that morning’s fierce burn
vanishing into a tambourine memory
and I’m caught madly dreaming
against the ragged anywhere
to return green tomorrow
Apr 16, 2015
Apr 16, 2015 at 12:46 AM UTC
Even though you're cut and hurt
Remember
Beautiful flowers
Are the ones people choose to cut
and keep
Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 12:17 PM UTC