A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Song of Rain A single path through a dry fountain, surrounded by dry grass There was a song on my lips A word on my tongue A gray vacancy in my eyes Held at bay by windless tides And in your hand I felt An arrhythmicContinue reading “WD 180 “Song of Rain””
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WD 170 “Desert Hermit”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Desert Hermit I bit the tail of the beast of burden Prescribed a sedative to keep him from falling into agony And there was no road ahead that I could use to follow But a trail of scattered locust skins -John the Baptizer The astrologers allContinue reading “WD 170 “Desert Hermit””
WD 169 “Haunted Temple”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Haunted Temple The eye is upon you While you go about your daily trade A pox, a curse, eye of newt and skin of toad And medication refills While he is, transfixed and transfigured into every sound that haunts Days of secret whispers in the pewsContinue reading “WD 169 “Haunted Temple””
WD 165 “Eve”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Eve Lap through what remains of the moon-touched water Darling Atrophy came to the branches with the setting of the sun Maggots, kept in hunger and isolation for untold centuries But the fruit of knowledge persisted A forbidden gem, breaching the leafy canopy To starlight AndContinue reading “WD 165 “Eve””
WD 160 “Cabal”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Cabal Swipe right to find out what’s coming in the wings Four wings double-bent, two covering the face Moses had a face that shined like the moon, so he had to hide it And I hide my psychic vibrations, solar waves So you can keep goingContinue reading “WD 160 “Cabal””
WD 157 “Aspects of the Infinite”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Aspects of the Infinite Harmoniously, we fall into a craze Peacefully we slip into, a crack in the ice, where the coldness and lack of light slow Reptilian heart rates And I loved you, and I became one with you But the eyes always thirsted forContinue reading “WD 157 “Aspects of the Infinite””
WD 156 “Oracles”
Prose from the journal of The Guardian Fog. Oracles Eighteen credits, full time. We went in the same direction, following the arrows on the pavement, to spiritual war, spiritual debt, Faustian bargains and places of divine leadership and some of us prayed for a prophet or a diviner, but after the sun went down weContinue reading “WD 156 “Oracles””
WD 153 “Frozen Flowers”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Frozen Flowers Cold comfort between friends Lemon Wedges in each drink I pantomime a story of distress, a secret set of bones buried in a cave But you can’t find it in yourself, or in the tundra around you I poke around, trying to stimulate theContinue reading “WD 153 “Frozen Flowers””
WD 152 “Mourning Dove”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Mourning Dove I waited The entire span of A serpent’s coils, for The fruit to become ripe The tantalizing allure of knowledge prodded me on like Jabs in my back A desire to understand and be unmade But I passed the fruit on to you AndContinue reading “WD 152 “Mourning Dove””
WD 149 “Beyond Good and Evil II”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Beyond Good and Evil II It grieves me to say it To think it To hitch my wagon to a space in their field of vision The watchers mutter their quiet curses As they consider us with chain-linked brains Porus, a sieve allowing the quality ofContinue reading “WD 149 “Beyond Good and Evil II””
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