Beneath the icy cascade,relentless worms do flow,With intention, the tug of existence, an insistent undertow,In the shape of cracking eggs, a swirling vortex form,A piscine tornado, against the currents final storm.Upstream, the gills are flapping in despair,As the roof of the world is ripped, apart, a single tear, sans oxygen Octopi, mind spread through every…
Category: Poetry
Here is a collection of various poems spanning the last five years. Among these are a few from decades ago
Brain and Computer Rituals
Humueral veil for John Von Neumann’s progeny Chaotic itinerancy of vectorsA clearance sale of vestments Where did the pope get that frock?One thinks of Fellini’s parade of bishops As the sad eyed Juliette looks onThe golden thread that snapsat the gates of heaven Oct. 22, 2023 SGL Brunswick, ME
Oumuamua
dressed in pink i1/2017 first (observed )interstellar object, OneContaining no water or ice800 x 80 meters hurtling (10/1)at 186,000 miles per hourrelative to Sol( Light speed 186,00 miles per second )Their hyperbolic courseinsures no captureintuitive understanding often contradicts mathematical realityThey (singular) leaves our system20 degrees above the plane in which Terra orbits Sol(Fingers plus toes)Winging…
Calculating Horse Medicine
God lead us NOT into a flawed ontology But deliver us from that nonexistent epistemological righteousness that was formed inEurope and fermented on TVIs this broken glass or diamonds?The vandal wonders at the plunder.The world we inhabit has no deathA bullet to the chestYields instant resurrection On the video consoleWhy are the shop keepers cowering ?This is…
Dog Sleeping
When the dog sleepsWhere is she running?Soft muffled barks held innot to disturb the others in the packShe runs through the mistProtecting the rest from unknown dangersPure of heartFull of purposeSleeping DeeplyGently twitching 10/1/2023
Hypnosis
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…
Fantasy/Reality – Different
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…
To Eat My Own Head
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…
Fragments
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…
Lightening Rod
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….