Picking the meat from the boneAnd taking a moment Thank the animal, tagged 47that gave its life to Nourish DeathWho wants to be there when it comes?Dazzling gummy bears like eggsShooting from Kali’s yoniOn the other side of BardoBut blazing with chromium flamesA necklace of severed headsCrushed skulls beneath her feetSlipping down the chutes and…
Month: May 2023
Dreamland Sugar Camera
Sam Ashley appears again and again Reminder of death, not deathIn the little square In the upper corner of my Phone’s Home ScreenA picture of the three of usIn the desert, he often Would lay in tranceUnder a black tarp Beneath a Juniper TreeTrying to make the luck in Las Vegas changeOr was it the one at Fort PointBelow the Golden…
Prompt from Radio Ashes
In the voice of a modern poetRapidly write a haiku aboutMurdered and scalped in 1676By the justifiably enraged Saget of the soon extinct Narragansett Near what is now Providence, fee and fithe bones of an EnglishmanBuried under Hamlet’s millLost when it blazed across heavenA century laterRadio-waves raised from the ashes▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ AI responds:A pilgrim’s bones lieIn…
Fingernails
The strange sadness At the end of reading a bookLong coke scooping fingernails Hoping for joy or clarity Great for getting ticks Off the pet chimpanzee The non sequitur of it allEiffel TowerSmell of turpentine Wheels spinning As non existent asSarte’s embalming fluid 5/5/2023