Each — as a Spoke
Ah, to float on a femur, to bear the load of Saturn as a wide brimmed hat…
Month: February 2020
Like the Red Leaves
Just a forelimb on the road,careless as a twig,but no plunder for crows,no worthy feast for a scavenge,just hoof, hide and bone. And that’s how they left her,a narrow remain,…
On the Burden of Deceit
Who shall bear the burden of deceit –betrayer or betrayed –for a hot lie steams in the streetlike water from a blown hydrant;giddy children splash and tumble,while placid truth stands…
On Betrayal
Would you betray a maple for its shade –deny yourself the cool comfort of dim light,sweet woodruff and fern, ground ivy,violet in spring? Columbine refusesfull sun. Your languors burn, blisterand…
Ruminations of a Cook Between Rushes
Would that I never find a God or Gods,for that, that would end my faith. My faith –the certain unknowledge of knowinganything but the black ass of Jesus running away,laughing,…
Away My Love
Come away.Come away and slurinto hovelling gray,away from the heatshummed low – away. Come, let us carrythis mute owl nightfar from burgeoning day –away – far from the furyof gospel…
Know Me
I am Collapse –The stones and bones of a once high tower,The backs of those that raised it, arrogantTo the sun, and I am the fist that crushed it. I…
