Posts Tagged "Poetry"
Things That Earth No Longer Bears
Existence observed, without passion, the brief time of humans, their toys, flesh, laughter, tears becoming ghosts in the river of Now. Infinity amused at the raw, shared subconscious, noticed in a leap of regret, the sweet brine of star dust in each being, conceived in a shell of flesh,...
Read MoreVOX
Fallen among the stars The light comes and I Raise myself to it in welcome A supplicant My voice no longer my own. I hear the howls of the Things-That-Are Their maws snap and lunge Vicious in anticipation Looming near. He steps forward, weapon drawn I hold out my hand to...
Read MoreFury
If a muscle is located, not in the wing, but in the rachis, or if eyeballs are attached directly to eyelashes and the pelt is just a tuft of muscle tissues, or if the intestine of a child falls short of muscles at the expense of a muscle bound layette and slippers, which stretch their...
Read MoreThe Galatea
You invented me, my maker— built me out of clockworks and gears, the Eve of my kind, the first metal foot on the Earth. A marvel, a myth come to life. I reread your manuals, your notes, graph paper brittle between bronze fingertips. They make sense to me; their logic sings through my...
Read MoreWormhole
I’ve almost lapped the light, nearly rounded the corner from one day to the next. Edges are always difficult: lines between here, there; then, now; together, alone. In the empty gap, whiteout fog forms. It doesn’t creep. It doesn’t bother me to be far out of touch. Devices meant...
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