It’s been a long time since you Spun in the circle Conjuring the light from The lightless living and Dead Pray Tell and Report What is it that keeps a man from becoming Something else? A nameless kind of magic? The Word of God, or A solemn promise to himself? Or are we merely reflectiveContinue reading “Mirror Mirror”
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Still Warm
It’s gray out But the warm sun blasts through the ceiling of clouds Filling my body with Essential heat Vitamins And a means to alchemically produce Happiness In material form But we long for the dark So that we can peer down empty streets with Lightless eyes And claim that we see the world forContinue reading “Still Warm”
WD 203 “Shadow Kid”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Shadow Kid Blink and you’ll miss me An afterimage on a polaroid camera You see the fearful wince between a smile and a smirk Optical illusion between two equidistant lines It cuts a figure in the green negative space where you looked Too close to theContinue reading “WD 203 “Shadow Kid””
197 “Chiron Alarm”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Chiron Alarm I can see over a thousand miles Entryways to dark beginnings A picture of a Subway tunnel And I’m the only one waiting for the train I don’t know where it goes When it stops Or what order resides beyond the boundaries of sleepContinue reading “197 “Chiron Alarm””
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 89 “Lunar”
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Luna Put in my place by The quiet between your words You have no object permanence And I’m an immaterial object Like the light of the moon Which can be seen from thousands of miles away I cannot be heard but I can move the tides Continue reading “WD 89 “Lunar””
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