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amulet

brittle doll glazed
fingerprints in clay 
kiln fired blue saturation
faience Venus 
tucked between cheek and gum
feed her secret violets
to distract away winter gloom and lure
piquant bird song sung in
shades of lemonade and juniper
be wary
mischief fashioned pocket fey
play tricks like snow in August
remember yes bring violets
just in case

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hypomania

cellophane window to the world
pierced veil peer into the abyss
reach in grasp at echoes
pull out a pocketful of sparkled nothing
tinkly almost music pain
heralds the transformation 
man to werewolf whim of gods
medication bars the threshold 
limbo of neither here nor there
suspended animation 
between memory and wishes

shades

witless witness world gone mad
obsessive urge to order chaos 
stiffly metered indecipherable 
rope of words
knotted pearls precision matched 
string of small meanings
esoteric arcane secrets
recited before
an audience of crickets
made small by fear of living
made mean by fear of love

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playwright

soul to cling

(tremble)

soul to stand erect alone

(dissemble)

magnificent insubstantiality

(preamble)

gracious swoon

(plot)

langourous death by repititious insanity

(denouement)

comedic relief

(footnote)

vicarious slapstick spectacle

(glossary)

continuity

sinuous movement

snaking through my own life

stretched out beyond the edges of the bare slice

we call the moment

tail in the past

consuming the future

if i have scales do they not 

iridesce even when i am invisible

(they do)

this morning poem, children

is only about living

spirals springs circles

cyclical regeneration

time is the heat spark where never meets forever

creative energetic radiation

the more i love the more

the more i love

the more i dissect meaning

the less "i" exist

simply

granted conscious glimpses

behind the illusion that requires

rhythmic participation

Komodo dragon biting cattle

normality

ever forever at once again
what is it like not to burn
to not feel the blood wounds of a cruel word
to not rain sparks of molten joy and tears
to be unmoved by life
how do they live so unsensing-dull
they are not crazy
so i'm told

fireflies

aspire to spiral
time is of the non-essence
gene sequence circular breathing
star fire passes
swamp gas ignites
elegant in purpose
but aren't we all
perfect
yes

SOMETIMES I CAN'T HELP MYSELF

reflective

breathing not so easy

when you're dead

they say the dirt

turns to mud

when you spit

are you

glad you

woke up today

do you know

your obscure name

few come to self knowledge

for a reason

especially when paid for

by credit card

it's always time

to kill the "i"

just dust stardust

animated aware

then boom

nothing

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cynical

cold ass wind
singing lonely to me even though
it rides shotgun with
doppler effect diesel engines
wishing there were things i never saw
they don't un-see, you see
seeing seeking patterns they can't
break free they can't break free
of the desire to suffer but
i eye aye ai      (that's fucking HILARIOUS!)
just want to be
the light

 

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