Eye lids stirbefore that moment of realization Another dawn Another day to dance before the mocking … the relentless maw of deathand the promiseof the way it wasbefore one’s birth into this land where sparks fly from wheelswhere the fires burn and burnthe clocks that never stop ticking until that moment of return united in…
Author: Scot Gresham-Lancaster
The Darkness at Noon
The underworld is just the worlda “Blue Death-Feigning Beetle.”It survived by pretending it was dead … like democracyThey come back to life before being stomped by a rich man’s bootIn the early springFeel Free like Fred Hampton didThe snow melts so fast April 4, 2024 SGL Brunswick, ME
Long Dormant Wound
Rising up to fester When I’m nervous I try (too hard) to be cleverMy wife is under the knife right nowWhat is a non praying man to do?“I wanna be here for suppah”Said the old man in the adjacent roomHe didn’t know where he wasAfter surgery Oh Father, Art thou in Heaven?Hollow was your blame,your…
Death mask
If you can predict it It is not emergent Beauty is agency, butthere is a surprising depth to the artificial Imagine that moment When it all ends …Is it a break in the continuity of flow? the simulation …The moment when the linearity goes away with a sudden click?Is it a wonderful rush to a…
My Mother’s Brush
Small, purse size, dental white handle with black bristles I had never really removed the entangled thinning hair Not unlike the fading memories of her Brunswick 2-24-24 SGL
Utopian Asymptote
Surveillance shots Little needle tractors Digging sewer lines in the garden of the deadMaster SpicerNo more fresh micro greens For all the tattooed chefsStriving forever, never reaching taste bud perfection Sting of street pharmaceuticals on the loosened tongueVodka over ice chasing roofies Unbridled lust In a careful carefree box Yellow is the color of the…
Phoenix Rising
No atom is an islandA single hand does not clapLife and breath“After my failed marriage, I was like a phoenix rising”Feverish 30 year old was typing“Killer, click grabbing headline”She thought“Maybe I can get enough clicksI only need $1200for the abortion”It works until it doesn’t. It’s magic untilIt’s knot 2/2/2024 SGL Brunswick, ME
Perfection
The ragged soul takes flightout of the window of timeRotting teeth chewing non-exfoliated detail of xenonno end neonredividerWinter rootsBroken away andTwisting to ChaosGlasses made of diamondsFacets Rainbow distortion Lucky to have a garden to tendTake care of it and it takes care of youIt exposes the danger of Ordering the web of the worldReticular profusion…
Moon
Tooo impatient to be …Howling at the moonthere is no moonJust howlingStarving Exposed Feverish Bearded Hipster one hand clap Clown makeup smeared on the variety TV show of the crescent frontal lobeSecret space bases on thebackside of my warbling mind the deepest craters are filled with the memories of glue of hoofsof steeds from past…
That lingering
That once new frying pan with food sticking to teflon scratches My future kidney cancer That once new heart that had never been broken Nylon stints Support arteries that hadVery little bacon fat but more whiskey and cigarettes 20 year roof or 30 year roof? I’ll take the 20 year roofShort poems that aren’t Long…