Saturday, January 31, 2015

Poems and Prose #111 - Agonist

Calculations made about
some far-off future malady,
I futilely attempt to shake off
the dust that saddles me,
draping my eyes with what was
and forever has to be,
so that even inside placid scenes,
I'll always see calamity.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Poems and Prose #110 - Rotor

Happenings
continue to occur,
each new one melting
into the prior's blur.

The cogs that hold
them aloft still whirr,
and, though lacking lubrication,
remain, indeed, unheard.

Poems and Prose #109 - Taps

Standing resolutely
inside Spinoza's God,
I think about the
holy organ tissues
over which I trod,

listening intently
for the echoes of
one brain's many nods;
my fingers bugle keys,
my neck
a flag-draped rod.

Poems and Prose #108 - Devise

Some distant voice
coerces me into
doing these devious deeds,

steering my limbs
with the calls
to anarchy it sings,

and I salute, akimbo,
making real
someone far off's dreams,

diminishing the heights
of a dozen onlookers'
simply sordid schemes.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Poems and Prose #107 - Ambiance

Ensconced in torpor,
I gaze into the wall,
its minor imperfections
seeming to be small,
and sense a passerby
passing in the hall,
causing me to swallow mighty hard
and clench my jaw.

Mental Blips #11 - Emerge

Heart like a vibrating string,
I stand here to see
what the whistling air brings.

Mental Blips #10 - Sheer

The TV's fuzzy,
and I'm getting close to gone,
dark space all around me.

Poems and Prose #106 - Uvula

The articulations seep
from his mouth into the air,
furious sounds
that signify something
weightless and invisible.

He clears his throat
and prepares to let the gas
in his lung sacs
rejoin that which
hangs all around him.

Poems and Prose #105 - Polished

Trickery abounds,
what with all the
echoless sounds
and the damp
coffee grounds
and the tiny puffs of air
that weigh a million pounds,

fooling me enough
to reflect back to me
a shameful face
when I glance into
that mirrored plate
that hangs in front of
my freshly-empty safe
and reminds me that
I'm still in this place.