Heavenly Bodies
I drift, Every now and then To your cloud You sense my high But not the Low Pressure System That compels it I aspire to your heights But am sick to my stomach A vertigo beyond the reach of words … Continue reading Heavenly Bodies
Category: poetry
Flying North (Consensus)
A flock of gulls, Bird-brained as they are Will fly north As one When the time is right They read the time But how do they know When it’s right? A flock of gulls, Bird-brained as they are Continue reading Flying North (Consensus)
The Cola-Fin™
Tentacles rising With a quick fell sweep Come a’slither down over Our quaint little beach The Cola-Fin! Ack! He’s at it again! He’ll hand out free samples Then AWAY to his den! Of corporate contraptions And odd ends and bits … Continue reading The Cola-Fin™
Synth Rock Mysticism
We strike the 2/2 in staccatos Crash cymbals alternating While the stab of fully-laden 80’s synth Hammers out the backbone of a beat So unfathomably heavy, It could reverse magnetic poles. Watch, As Chuck Taylors leave the ground Hair over … Continue reading Synth Rock Mysticism
The Crucible
A wellspring of muesli bubbles up in my gorge Piling food in me to change the facts But a thousand acres of uncomfortable emptiness can not will not be filled by it. Only, it seems, the imposition of work with … Continue reading The Crucible
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