i brewed a carafe of coffee french pressed and piping hot – i kept the top removed from the kettle then turned the corresponding dial on the electric stove – i leaned upon the venting unit and stared as the element changed – the sooty slate-like coloring erupted emerging from faded ruby to an angry…
Tag: Poetry
Pioneer Spirits
pioneer spirits take to the plains once more – you’ve stood your ground too long – seek out new unexplored avenues scale hills and mountaintops gaze upon a world spread out before you taste the unknown fruits of exploration toss aside the compass of expectation pursue the stars of your constellation let your prairie soul…
Neon Souls
flashpan neon souls igniting the world – electric smiles buzzing loud amidst the quiet – subdued stoic existence – baring puffed chests in the presence of deflated gasbags and disapproving glares screaming in ecstasy hot blood flushing their cheeks – blooming roses in stone gardens barren untilled salted soil – screaming life from the rafters…
Harvest
threshing commences elegant flair of a flippant wrist – flailing upon delicate stalks of fruiting grain – beneath the sun is closing growing dim in the dying days of warmth drawing shades on another passing moment greeting the moon claustrophobic entombment of the granary – no malice in this action merely nature – unencumbered by…
Island Heart
she bids adieu to sun bleached shores slinking through sand before sunrise chilly opalescence shimmering pale morning light breathing deep the nautical breeze gazing off to distant lands beyond the horizon far from where her passion lies shipwrecked heart tossed unto island seclusion suffering rays of a sun which disrupts the darkness confronting the hidden…
Brother Julius
tell me brother julius of nights spent in the open beneath quilted darkness damp heat in the wee hours lost and ignored in a street lamp solar system how you wandered deep into desolate suburban wastes resting affluence of noctilucent methane clouds hanging cold on the edge of night satin sprawled amidst dead heaven how…
The Sun in Summer
sanguine summer sun august above the minted morass hazy sweltering heat humid smog opaques obscuring butter churned rays smeared saffron and cream setting in orange glazed oil paint vermillion yolk frozen stretching out wild in feeble ripples still waters disturbed caught beneath the thrust of mayflies pirouetting then passing on
Where the Streams Meet
echoes in the timid chamber – titian avarice pulses in wait preying on fresh drops to fall from bleating gash chest wounds squirming artists lost in the shuffle – voiding the hole of its precious fluid purple as their prose leaching whatever granules of inspiration diluted or fermented over time – tigris euphrates venous arterial…
Whitewash
these walls are weeping bleeding wide rivers of tar hidden beneath waxen weathered paint how the steam of thick moisture reveals what’s buried in layers escapes such furtive eyes at first glance will rise like cream from the belly of a stagnant pool assaulting my vision an affront to good taste brown strands cascading in…
Message in a Bottle
sealed in glass bottles shipwrecked souls washed upon the shores of dense desert isles corked in air tight longing to escape heralding messages unread while the tides roll in receding back infinitely peer through this pellucid vessel marvel at unknown terrors sunk beneath the waves hidden horrors buried ‘neath the sand the fury of the…
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