Poem: Unhypnotize

 

 

Unhypnotize

 

in the screen of your eyes

carousels went round,

menageries of style

flashy and cute while

your facial commercials hypnotized.

 

one real caress

would’ve been enough

to cut through the drama,

dispel my worship like breeze.

icons could’ve tumbled,

the glitz to drip off your

photogenic chin onto a new sort of  

stage without promotion.

 

it wouldn’t even have been sexual.

just no televisuals.  no cloned chicks or

masculine rocks.  just a glimpse of concern,

alien to your fluorescence,

the kind that honors a journey

of connected touch.

 

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5/11/26... eds all day

Poem: Fire Kiss

 

 

Fire Kiss

 

the fault line of your kiss has

fractured me down through the tectonic  

plates of my chest and

ruptured the magma there

to pant fire and burst out of

my sternum, fabled violets and

roses melting my bones, my blood

a mad vapor, musculature

to pump and boil, thigh and

piston of bicep, and that torch

of the crucible of abdominis,

seat of ache and flesh and

my ribs split and list, sides of

a galleon cleaved aft to fore

clutching at each other in

the solar churn of this heart,

such complict rhythms of

blaze and ecstasy.

to feast

on the merge of our breaths and moans,

pursue the resonance across

the volcanoes of your breasts, your

lunge and that surge in your eyes, so clear

with delicious fever, secret places

forever shared between us, yours, mine,

mysterious cores of naked, brutal being

which cast the first flame.

 

 

 

 

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Poem: Knox Hobo

 

Knox Hobo

 

breeze laps the side of a pond

lazy and wet while

lotuses float and i sway

as if a old hound

was leashed to my saunter.

 

down i go to the railroad tracks,

that crucifixion of steel

long and unbroken--

should i wait, arms out,

while i gaze at the pawpaws,

their greasy fruit ready

for my feast, their

pleasure on my tongue,

 

ooooooooooooooooooh

and a little beer?

 

i’ve gone down many times

for the pawpaw fruit guarded by

devil’s stick and nettle’s breath.

 

be sure not to tickle the thorns. 

 

the sun is a woman’s smile

thin above her green skirt

when you lie back and gaze

at that soft river.

 

 

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5/6/26 eds

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Poem: Displaced

 

Displaced

 

maples gesture

like a zealous choir,

not in praise of gulls

who salt a vast indigo,

but that pearl of eternal shining:

honey-giver over deciduous temples,

hallelujah, the golden teat!

 

squirrels tussle

to rile cone-rich duff,

riding the chthonic roots

of the two-faced maples near

a single scalloped doubloon,

long stolen from its underwater cove.

 

calcified, the lonely trinket,

gooey with marl,

tilts as if hunkered down,

a sad mollusk’s tomb,

fleeing alien oxygen.

no advocate with gills

in this upside down world

to offer comfort, let alone

peace.

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Regarding the Poems

 The poems are all I have.  They are my children.  They will keep growing, full of error and play, at least until I die.  And yet eternal in their wonder. 

Poem: Cloud

 

Cloud

 

flaunty in its fluff, the cloud

failed to find release,

just hung there,

dense with unseen yet obvious emotion.

 

its seamless shell of flesh,

deliberate and obstinate as

tectonic plates, inched and

inched and inched until

 

it became what happens to a body of water

which holds onto a lie so tightly

it rises up, phantom grey,

to inform a tragic statue.

 

yes,

 

belly full of electric lust,

frustrated in a wallow of

merciless gravity, the cloud 

moaned without a sound, ignored

 

by lawn after manicured lawn,

patio squared with patio,

and all the grills of searing flesh

in barbecued lines.

 

 

 

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4/23/26... mods all day .. 

Quote, "Isn't that what evil is? ... "

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… Isn’t this what evil is? A projection onto the world not of overbearing and large intent, but smallness and fear? The consequences of violence are secondary to the validation that comes from inflicting it. Trump’s constant self-aggrandisement, his grudges against political adversaries, the fury at being challenged by the press, the revenge he promises to wreak on the Iranian regime. All are ways to erase and avoid what is a permanent terror of humiliation and obsolescence. (Goya’s Saturn, wild-eyed, devours his son.)

It is in that very puniness that insatiable evil lies. In 1931 … [ Hitler ] was interviewed by the US reporter Dorothy Thompson for Cosmopolitan. “When I walked into Adolf Hitler’s salon in the Kaiserhof hotel,” Thompson recalled, “I was convinced that I was meeting the future dictator of Germany. In something like 50 seconds, I was quite sure he was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog.”

… We tend to imbue history and all its grave events with a seriousness and coherence that we struggle to apply in the present. And I think that’s because it’s hard for the human brain to encounter evil in ludicrous form, and still recognise it as such. That’s how it creeps up on you.

 

Nesrine Malik, Columnist

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/20/trump-presidency-evil-absurd-frightening-ideology

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Poem: New Death

 

New Death

 

in a struggle of a second

i called out, more than loud,

less than a penitent scream.

i listened to the echoes of myself fade,

embers of some thinker hollowed,

a sculptor who became a replica,

etched on an ironic tomb.

 

it was a plot of dizzy asters,

white and purple needle sprays,

and i had just remembered

our ‘walks’ in places where

dust had suckled our bare toes,

sashes of ravens in sierra blue,

cliffs whiskery with sagebrush.

 

i’d come to the realization

your presence was not assured.

a new sort of death which

didn’t hurt as much as the first,

my limitation, not yours,

how i argued into the wind,

as if it knew how to find you.

 

such lovely sorcery

had been our sustenance

ever since it all began,

how we found each other with no explanation

from anyone else who had tried,

only the echo chamber of the fearful

who chipped away at marvel and delight.

 

sheep in the valley, wings in the sky,

only the meander of the foothills

bared pleasures fretless and attainable.

and so it was, you and i,

we fell together, over and over,

far above the jaws of generic cruelty,

faltering in our height.

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Poem: Cursor

 

Cursor

 

in the chasm between stanzas

a heartbeat of a paring-knife.

it lugs words even as it cuts them

across barrens of pure white hopelessness.

 

its insectoid blink

tells me what i can/can’t do,

frustrates, makes me want to run

faster than its snippet pulse.

 

but that goad is like the throb

of some invincible fiend,

always there, somewhere,

askance, above, below the stage,

tugging and jerking

in the wires.

 

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Poem: Worms In a Storm

 

Worms in a Storm

 

to twitch in swollen mud,

frantic nerves of drowning wrath.

raindrops pucker gutter floods,

yank the false ecstasy

of the baptimsal squigglers

down through slime-lipped grates,

down through a stygian intestine

of sewer system where they 

dodge the swipe of rats and

feces-fecund gyres.

down, until they dance

as abyssal as possible,

not quite still dead,

vomited into the brine,

luring the mouths of bass.

 

 

 

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