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…
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of various poems spanning the last five years. Among these are a few from decades ago
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
Microdosing Morphine
Transcendence, difficult Field of thorns Pain doesn’t always …Always hurtsHow does that triad balance out?Holy Ghost, Son?Holy Ghost a female?Do they get a say?Preguntas …Always hurts 3/4/2023
Secret Haiku
Blooms a nasty thingDesire is too abundant You will tell no one 2/17/2023
Slicing
My human set of haiku (1 hour of work over several days after prompt):1The rabbit slicingResides deep in taut dreamingAbove deep waters2Meat slicer whirring Rabbit leg readily slicedDark waters below3Eva Braun’s blackfaceThe dark water way below youThe fear of one’s death 4Thin sliced old veganChoking on the rancid meatEnlightenment next5Rainbow Unicorns Smiling faces everywhere World…
Walmart Bibles
Short version Divine Profit factoryBlack Friday salvationEnd of days (bargains galore)Making the TV Dinner Great AgainFirst Lady of the Eschatological Universe Stale Mythological BreadSanctified Christian HatredSpasm of Gluttony for CenturiesStarless night of Bible’s blackTunnel of Rapturous Light Longer version A whole tasty palette of Walmart BiblesWaiting for delivery from the Divine Profit Factory DPF®Eager blank…
Relentless Horizon
All eleven dimensions, folded spinning resonance looping on loopingIt is not a skeletal specter, scythe slicing the thick intangibles of future times It is a glow that folds on itself like a migraine tear across the depth of interior visionsThe endless beating of the wings, the whirlpool of blood is not foreverBut the carelessness of…
Magic Square
Gadgets Labyrinthine A Neocolonist Be Mediterranean Hairless Kabbalistic Photographically Cat Journalist Eagle Idealized Fables Omnidirectional Dada Feb 4 2023 Brunswick Maine-29 F with wind chill