One drop of night’s black ink a rarified
Blue blood smear on dawn’s laboratory slide
As stellar consternation’s scruples mount
Anent earth’s elevated white cell count,
The town begins to stir. A distant car
Sneezes to life. Its starting leaves a scar
On the slashed silence. Trash cans sing
As drivers feed them before motoring.
Thunderous birdsong floods the ear and wheezes
As love’s fist grasps a feathered heart and squeezes.
The fist that wrings the poor bird’s soggy heart
And animates its limbs in every part
Massages pistons in the engine’s chest
And quickens matter at the wind’s behest.
Some sodden cars parked street-wise sweat with dew
In the cool morning air’s metallic stew.
8/24/2011
Friday, December 27, 2013
Night Prayer
Tactile sky, a child’s bedroom wall at night.
A blue star like a gas fire pilot light.
Wallpaper frieze, or drooping elm tree clusters?
Night-lacquered saraband of interlaced leaf lusters.
Presentiments of deluge, featured in
The walled sky’s membranous translucent skin;
A bleeding-through of humors, held the while
By nothing but the muscles of a smile;
Ready to burst, an eyeball fat with dew,
The ocular tumescence of a view
Galaxies-wide in compass, in whose girth
And argent perlustrations drowns the earth.
Night vault, in whose ideal rotundity
Thunder awakens, cloud your eyes, as we
Breath on a lens; your deafening vastness this
Will sweeten with the moisture of a kiss.
1/6/2012
A blue star like a gas fire pilot light.
Wallpaper frieze, or drooping elm tree clusters?
Night-lacquered saraband of interlaced leaf lusters.
Presentiments of deluge, featured in
The walled sky’s membranous translucent skin;
A bleeding-through of humors, held the while
By nothing but the muscles of a smile;
Ready to burst, an eyeball fat with dew,
The ocular tumescence of a view
Galaxies-wide in compass, in whose girth
And argent perlustrations drowns the earth.
Night vault, in whose ideal rotundity
Thunder awakens, cloud your eyes, as we
Breath on a lens; your deafening vastness this
Will sweeten with the moisture of a kiss.
1/6/2012
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
On a Company of Female Athletes
Some women, chastity their sword,
Under the star of battle seek
Glory in war, the past restored,
A breath of things uniquely Greek.
Nude to the waist, each handsome bust,
Gives off, amid the scent of flower
An awesome scent of stadium dust
Rose oil and sweat and milk gone sour.
Their loins unclothed, their limbs unfresh,
Into the shower rooms they fleet
To rinse their battle-weary flesh
And stanch the sour smell of defeat.
(1981?)
Under the star of battle seek
Glory in war, the past restored,
A breath of things uniquely Greek.
Nude to the waist, each handsome bust,
Gives off, amid the scent of flower
An awesome scent of stadium dust
Rose oil and sweat and milk gone sour.
Their loins unclothed, their limbs unfresh,
Into the shower rooms they fleet
To rinse their battle-weary flesh
And stanch the sour smell of defeat.
(1981?)
Friday, December 20, 2013
The Elm
Harsh wind rifles and harps
In the fleece and bones of the elm,
Rocks it inside and fillups
Its leafy ribs with its fingers
Tormenting brilliant storm chords
Out of its sea-green welter,
Imbuing with blue-flash lightning
The somber heart in its slumber.
Pellets of fish-eyed water
Glide off its green pelisse.
Myriad post-storm droplets
Glitter like broken glass chips
In a hallway of shattered mirrors,
Ensnared on fishhooks of light.
Everyone shudders to see what
The storm sees, throned in its tree.
12/21/2013
In the fleece and bones of the elm,
Rocks it inside and fillups
Its leafy ribs with its fingers
Tormenting brilliant storm chords
Out of its sea-green welter,
Imbuing with blue-flash lightning
The somber heart in its slumber.
Pellets of fish-eyed water
Glide off its green pelisse.
Myriad post-storm droplets
Glitter like broken glass chips
In a hallway of shattered mirrors,
Ensnared on fishhooks of light.
Everyone shudders to see what
The storm sees, throned in its tree.
12/21/2013
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Reyna
Her moist incisement trickles venom
Onto soiled designer denim
While her breasts enlarge and taughten
Under nipple-darkened cotton
And her panther ass tattoo
Bulges lewdly into view
Where her fashion-shrunken pants
Betray its murderous advance.
Her killing ground: a concrete floor
Lined with shops. Intent on more
She prowls. Eight thousand miles below
Lies a swamp of indigo
Stars. Encased in warm cement
Her feet take root. An increment
Of planetary influence
Blooms in her flesh like God’s incense.
11/30/2013
Onto soiled designer denim
While her breasts enlarge and taughten
Under nipple-darkened cotton
And her panther ass tattoo
Bulges lewdly into view
Where her fashion-shrunken pants
Betray its murderous advance.
Her killing ground: a concrete floor
Lined with shops. Intent on more
She prowls. Eight thousand miles below
Lies a swamp of indigo
Stars. Encased in warm cement
Her feet take root. An increment
Of planetary influence
Blooms in her flesh like God’s incense.
11/30/2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Love's Supremacy
Two wizened sluts with cum-slubbered faces
Crumb seven last lovedrops with spearing tongues
On pacified islands of body hair
As Venus scorches the field of Mars
With the iron hoops of her chariot wheels
To celebrate Love’s supremacy.
June 2012
Crumb seven last lovedrops with spearing tongues
On pacified islands of body hair
As Venus scorches the field of Mars
With the iron hoops of her chariot wheels
To celebrate Love’s supremacy.
June 2012
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Two Poems
Aubade
O sky on whose soft bed of air
an eagle feather fluoresces
porched above adventure
on ledges of knife’s thickness
above stained-with-strawberry satin
on the mouth-of-the-earth’s pillow.
Day breaks the heart of the body
of dawn’s lung liquefying,
coughing its song of decay
in blossoming putrefaction:
delicate flecks of pearl,
puddle of pink-green feathers.
Earth, death, beauty:
A Madagascar bird snake’s
coughed from its throat of azure
serpent-vomited rainbow
nightmare iridescence,
dust on the horizon
like beads of colored phlegm;
earth’s lung lined with moulting
feathers steeped in dying
apricot-compote syrup;
larks’ lungs poached in wine sauce;
the spectacular, tubercular
stained-pillow dawn.
August 2013
The City
Soles sucked by sobbing cement, I sauntered
Killed by gravity’s amorous hug. I wandered
City sidewalks dead with feet imprisoned
In unobstructed freedom’s dense derision.
This ossified bone of civilized contention
Spacious enough to hide creation’s stench in,
This architectural sepulcher dedicated
To housing mankind’s criminally medicated,
Can only, having passed enlightenment’s due date,
Fart exhaust fumes, and in a taxi’s queue wait.
October 2013
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