Experiments in Distant Influence Click ( without shadows flick ( life would be 2 dimensional Lick ( soft, without definition Ticket ( no way in or outStick it ( trapped in a ThicketCricket ( never silentStruck ( match that starts the fireClay ( hardened in the kilnPi ( radius squared E ( logarithmically natural Transcendent…

Erotic thoughts that aren’t criminal very unusual I won’t tell, piously Begging, don’t tell meI imagine you pleading not to sayNot to revealThe dark hidden truthOf your inner lifeThe suffering and painThe look of sudden ecstasy On the virgin’s beatific faceFilled with the alien, unknowable Holy SpiritChrist’s furrowed backAs he struggles toward CalvaryTo meet his…

My head was baked for 3 hours at 400 degreesFeeling my skull with my fingertips My brain tasted saltylike seawater Those little knobs at the inside edge of the eye socket Gristle, hard to scrape out with my teethAs a child, I used to push real hard with my index fingers on the soft edges…

When a light wave is not a light waveLikewise the divine hospice workers and nursesThank you in advance, in ways that words do not expressDonny, we will have to tell your Dad that men from Mars are planning to destroy Earth!d“That would require telling the truth and I hate telling the truth”THEY are making us…

Shadows of SentienceThat same flyBuzzing around the kitchen for days nowFoucault, tripping his brains outat Zabriskie point with Sisyphus He just wants to be punishedby that handsome Daddy In a pastel sweaterMetal rods on religious towersCreating an 18th century furor of origin stories Zeus Elohim Allah and God OMKa BlamOne hand thunder clappingThe coyote is smoking peyote400 year old 7 ft….

Requiem for Sam “niemand bleibt hier” – Maria Osic Digital haze, the realm,One drunken night, where fates did overwhelm.He found herWaiting in his phoneFrom the trailer,A ’48 Spartan Manor’s in our old backyard,Impatient A tale, its essence unbound.A sadness, reallyA message arrived, a magical connection,Heidi, implausible Mexican name, she took him around the bend.A piece…