Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Mirror Is Broken Glass

 

in loving disaster surefire tenderness

those walls neon bleeding our doorjamb

our tenement our death-core by ink.

to have sweetness by phobia if mantis

our pain, so close, we rate our misery.

too much to succumb, such infants in

motion, our dire need for exploitation.

as roaring thunder, raining from fangs if

blood blue jazz; by cygnet ensemble or

starving eyes, into trauma-terror; our

opened nostrils, filled with poison, if to

deflate into nothingness!  those piglet

rumors, bubbling into unvetted facts, as

nights unfold, sweet fever, our knife grave.

Time was Brief

    With deeper allure—to ward off ghosts—melancholia is an empire. Such dialogue confuses—: one wrestling despair. It was remote living, in...