You can’t but see the haze Lung irritating Trees on horizon hills Lay cloaked, beyond still A leak below Spitting sulphur Into a crystal sky To turn smokey quartz What was once beautiful Is now still in a different form Now torn the ground And make leak the unfound All the birds call For anyContinue reading “Ellensberg Omen”
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Smoke Staver
Storms clean smoke In the bellow of breeze And clouds it brings In the old rain That now purges the haze And assaults the intrusion With vanishing pollution Come sure appreciation Of the skies missed no more
Switchblade
Switchblade Fog evaporates With the stinging heat Of ultraviolence. Droplets of amber And sap bleed to Creep like centipedes Down the branches And trunks Of rubber tree forests. So the fog is gone As the sun stabs Dawn into the woods. Oxygen is sunk in From the outside Like golden gore. Gas from monolithic treesContinue reading “Switchblade”
Particulate
Particulate Particulates of smoke Tetrahedron points Floating as if in Zero gravity Flushing through lungs Worming through bronchi Grey, brown, red shards Of microcosmic triangles Pinpricks of a universe Points of light glittering In smog of breath swirling Inhaling and taking to berth Tubes of red and blue lacing Through a body Carrying triangular nodesContinue reading “Particulate”
Incense
Incense Incense smoke supersedes stone stokes Of sashed ashes falling in cascades Can’t contain creeping vapors Various scent-killing vectors Ashes clashing with basket dashings With lashings And scent-killing gashes Slashings of brashness, smoke and its flashes Cover corruption with splashes Between synapse dischargings In the salt that catches Vented ashes with passings Into its nextContinue reading “Incense”
Ballad of Extinguishment
Ballad of Extinguishment I’m from yesterday You’re from tomorrow Yet we speak as if though Words were spilling over onto tables When time constructs Constricts And converges Where space is the place and We sail on the face Of the universes None shall be safe From the hunt Or the chase Of communication And concentrationsContinue reading “Ballad of Extinguishment”
