You I’ve been trying to think of a word For a few hours now. Something specific, That could hit a kind of specificity. It’s you. You should be indescribable. But I’m going to try to. You are a phantom of phantasm. A specter of something I can’t ever Be asked to dare to imagine OrContinue reading “You”
Category Archives: October Era (II)
Chariot
Chariot Where to? It doesn’t matter! Plot me a course, will you? Yes, those mountains DO look nice. There a path nearby? Perfect! Don’t mind the bumps, Don’t mind the lumps, Or the rocks on our path Up the tall mountain pass. Where to? We go! No matter the place, We’ll go!
How to Say This
How to Say This Words Words words words Should be easy to find But somehow they elude They should be evanescing Like butterflies from chrysalis But they’re flying away Abandoning their stead The cask is cracked Syllables are exhumed Cocoon is in scraps So the tatters float So maybe it’s not the time To seekContinue reading “How to Say This”
Eldritch Wires
Eldritch Wires What a force this is It’s incredible Compelling It’s so strange how it moves me It’s as if all my atoms were on wires And they lifted me up to the sky To fly, and show off this raw Power controlling me It’s been so long since I’ve Been taken like this It’sContinue reading “Eldritch Wires”
Petticoat Duel
Petticoat Duel With skirts flowing And roughed knees hiding, They appeared in the meadow With witnesses spectating. Two coats taken off, Expensive satin fell Into the tall grass And never retrieved again. Corsets exposed, loosened And dueling pistols produced. Now the two women could breathe And move with the right prowess. So they each tookContinue reading “Petticoat Duel”
Forever Seam
Forever Seam This is the end. That place you thought you’d never be. Yes, this is that abyssal void. A system of anarchy. Where the ruler weaves the seams, And you are lost to time. No one knows about this time, This place, this space, this end Of the borderlands where you seem To beContinue reading “Forever Seam”
Escalation
Escalation You’re getting so terribly close To that edge You’re at the fringe Theoretic binge Ruminating on what lies beyond What matters? Gravity, we know is here Who else intrudes upon This asking? It’s so important to leave This message Be It’s the one you need to understand This confession in your hand And thereContinue reading “Escalation”
Whispers
Whispers It’s been so long since I had Someone to whisper to In the dark I remember gifts I’d give, and receive The words I could never quite Make out Now there’s just the music Trying to fill that Void All that’s left behind Of the world That I helped build Oh this magnetic tapeContinue reading “Whispers”
Self-Extinction
Self-extinction I’ve been killed many times Every time, I was the one who Broke my own skin Yet out of every claiming Of my pelt I’ve grown ever so more Into this beastly thing Every moment of triumph collected And mounted, or stuffed To feign natural behaviors Hunting myself, so to speak Hunting myself toContinue reading “Self-Extinction”
Chaperone
Chaperone We hung it up On all our bedroom doors One at a time, Taking turns as the month went by Our forerunners gave it to us Generation gaps documented With every stitch and knot In the imitated metallic life This lavish flophouse Bore our worries since Any of us could ever Remember Every dayContinue reading “Chaperone”
