itinerant
I have pierced the skin of the earth with the spear
and it bleeds beneath my feet
I have honed it on history and fables like fire
and I know the bone-coloured summer moon will not soon heal the wound of my desire
My Darling-–the tattoo upon my heart, my memory and silence–-remember me upon the dew in twilight and know that we are there…
Sunday 11th August 2024 2:20 pm
binah
“you got ur mind right, boy?”
I got this fast car and the whistling wren
don’t know what to think of me
an’ I got a coin in my pocket
lain up toward the day of thunder
an’ the wind whispers
the cries of the great raptors
come, now, the hour of trembling
the mother of my understanding
suffers not to stay her hand
in my hour of need
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:49 am
burial at sea
turning to the great expanse
back turn to the land
backward from the shifting sand
the sea keeps its secrets
the heart like drifting time
leaves the uncertain shoreline
unleashed unto the silence
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:48 am
crossroads--today is history
Saturday 29th June 2024 11:11 pm
pale blue bird
"All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough."
~from On Earth We're...
Saturday 29th June 2024 1:07 pm
enough rocks for a monument
show me the place where the fire started
let me touch the black and the damp where you’re buried
don’t make me stand on traditiion
I want to make this incision
and watch the light pour from you
I know you’ll call me lustful and greedy for freeing you from what once was lit
still I’m gonna make a wreck of what’s left and put my name on it
Wednesday 19th June 2024 7:00 pm
tourists
daytime excursions and factory tours
peacetime incursions and factional wars
ground floor maneuvers and industrialization
backdoor intrusions upon weaponized nations
what the barrel’s bore reveals
the native assembly conceals
through baseline fluctuations
and cryptic enunciations
of what is dead and what is real
Monday 17th June 2024 6:47 pm
tension head
in our hands
the wings of doves
flutter then disappear
time moves a muddied river
the head packs dense with silt like concrete
50’ deep and rising...
a hydra hides from swords
of many words and bands
of horses run inside the echo
chamber of the herd
my fingertips to eyelids
I press to reach the daylight
behind the wall
...
Friday 14th June 2024 6:00 pm
stand and deliver—mile markers
the road’s rolling out
in front of me again
showing me the exit
say something quick
and make it stick
I’ll soon be gone
I’ll set a candle at my back
to light the path I’ve traveled
I’ll burn my skin with the heat of it
with still no movement ahead
I set my sight upon the distance
look now into my eyes
like you’d once done
smile and bring the te...
Saturday 25th May 2024 7:37 pm
beyond the pale (artefacts repurposed)
Tuesday 7th May 2024 6:00 pm
burrow
one by one
‘tween finger and thumb
I pull each light from the sky
switch all systems to sound
engage rotors through burial mound
and it’s back through the tunnels I go...
the weeks from now
will run down to days
and one by one
I’ll erase all the ways that I’ve been
and not long from now
not even I will remember
the weave and wend of my p...
Sunday 5th May 2024 7:09 pm
Corpus Aurum
--Independence Day, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Wednesday 1st May 2024 6:47 pm
gardens
"Look at the sea, how beautiful it is,
it inspires so many emotions,
like you do with the people you look at,
who you make to dream while they are still awake.
Look at this garden
and the scent of these oranges,
such a fine perfume,
it goes straight into your heart,
And you say: "I am leaving, goodbye."
You go away from this heart of mine,
away from this land of love,
And have you t...
Saturday 27th April 2024 6:57 pm
emotional detachment
my tippy toes on the tarmac
I'm light as a feather
heaven bless me heaven take me nothing outside the blackbox is real this is the fake me no more bending down to tie my shoes no pulling the draft up to overtake me
prologue
scared for the future
pushing through the drag
suture up these wounds
...
Thursday 25th April 2024 6:29 pm
amnesiac 3
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 6:04 pm
evensong
if twilight stir me to reason
and night then move me to passion
the daylight burn me to ashes
and darkness come without season
then this is the hour of patience
–I know morning will not be withheld
either by faith or the faithless
Thursday 18th April 2024 8:07 pm
..on earth as it is in heaven...
Tuesday 16th April 2024 6:15 pm
street fighter
hands that do the
strangest things
wringing life from
resting covers
wrapped ‘round ‘ur thin
legs like fatted animal skins
the red bells refuse to ring
but don’t think twice my sweet
the landing party’s on the street
collect a feather from
the nest of the yellow bird
and light a candle
for your timely lover
Monday 8th April 2024 7:04 pm
we are not yet dead
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 6:00 pm
positive bias
Thursday 28th March 2024 4:44 pm
collective subjectivity
once I sucked at mama’s teet
now I got my setup
got my shit sandwich
and I see you got one too…
Daddy set me on his knee
so I’d learn to sit up straight
pointed out the Golden Eye
and said I’d learn to bow in time
I spent those days barefoot reasoning
in the tall grass and weeds
with the mountains in the clouds
of the big blue sky…
..those moments seemed as endles...
Tuesday 26th March 2024 6:48 pm
stock analyst's lament
stand here now
while I search our common armory
of smiles flipped upside down
Thursday 21st March 2024 5:13 pm
tomb of Captain Eudemos
“..the ship is anchored
at its last Harbour,
never more to depart,
for no aid is now forthcoming
from either wind or sunlight;
Captain Eudemos, taking leave
of the light-bearing dawn,
was buried there
and his ship with its lifespan
short as day, like a broken wave.”
Tuesday 19th March 2024 6:15 pm
replay, bell & howell 8mm
larger-than-life moon fills the sky
a band
connecting forefinger and thumb
I can’t miss tonight
dew cast from the disappearing sun
coats my lashes
touches the round
knoll of my cheekbone
conditioned by the wet sensation
to take down the giant
I’ll close my eyes
and we’ll both
rest in peace tonight
Friday 15th March 2024 7:47 pm
field of play
Tuesday 12th March 2024 9:00 am
objective oversight
the dynamic of cellular automata in a closed-loop system having negligible recursivity becomes ...
Friday 8th March 2024 3:23 pm
sixty-seven rejections
Tuesday 5th March 2024 9:31 am
amnesiac 2
I am ghost
staring through the window
to the ground below
to shadows of birds of prey
to hawks at play
in silhouettes deflecting light…
I watch and wonder does the Sun seek
to bind the winged to the past--
does Mother chatter riddles
to capture flying bodies
inside darkened preform casts?
And, do they return
to search over ground they’ve once flown
seeking long-fled shad...
Friday 1st March 2024 5:24 pm
consumption in the city of brotherly love
the black dog
humping my leg
is only a figment
of a dull imagination I say
but I can’t get away from it
this whole setup is a tease
the drone of the TV
the buzz of the fluorescent lights above me
that flicker like frequencies gained and lost
in propagation and interfering...
Joe stands at the mouth of the volcano
and the sacrificial buffalo lo
...Thursday 29th February 2024 5:40 pm
amnesiac (possibilities)
Wednesday 28th February 2024 6:45 pm
historical fiction--paradox and survival
i am the hateful thing
the evil king
who welcomes your fear as my fate
because your love is a crutch
that I'll use to crush
the weight of the world's uncertainty
Friday 23rd February 2024 6:37 pm
so what
Tuesday 20th February 2024 6:21 pm
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