IntentSalience Resilience <-> Resignation DeathRepeat? SGL Brunswick Maine 6-2-23
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of various poems spanning the last five years. Among these are a few from decades ago
Animal 47 Samsara
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…
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
Indices
4/22/2023
Confession: Ancient Trans gression
May Day 1976 the entire contingentof the gay pride paradein the Fan of Richmond VaTurned off the streetin a prearranged choreography Up the packed aisle of thethe active church transitioning to music department stage“Bozo Face Makes a Waltz”was playing over the sound system the bassoon, cello and piano with electronics purring and spurting The ensemble of cross dressed celebrants mounted theFormer…
Ashes of Pompei
Cubicle on the 23rd floorClimate anxiety Sudden shock from static electricity A colorful mosaic As fingers tighten Over there, not here, not nownever hereRoaring twentiesHot, Sugar sweet, wind blownCareful rows of cuneiform Counting grains of sand There, Before the after 3/25/2023
Circle Time Parade of Changes
Whirring meat slicer Above deep deep dark waterGod, Dad’s drunk againHow old will we bebefore we don’t need our Daddy anymore?God the almightyFather of us all, radiantImaginaryEditHaiku coosWhirring meat slicer Above deep deep dark waterGod, in his sane cupsHow old will we bebefore we don’t need our Dada anymore?God the almightyFather of us all, radiantImaginary…
His tory
You are not reading thisIt is all a simulation Pi R squaredParticle …. WaveHer oes journey Momentous, stripped of all ability to see what others missThen there was the word, 3/10/23