Poetry

wet bug

squirming through
    the marbled world

when you remember words
    remember the copper tang,
    the smoky perfume,
    the sad, warm woman

your work must be
    porcelain steel rythms

translucent prisoner

Translucent Prisoner

their wild steel universe
    surrounds him

broken through sex,
    velvet worry - once live -
    now devoured color

perhaps, sister, you listen -
    stiff lipped laugh, trembling

explore them, pick and haunt,
    time stream pooling

Original Images

[ Achi Tryptichon ]

[ AbuGraibAbuse11 ]

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Asylum Angels

Belief in the moon,
    where we end
    abated and objecting,
    cold distance setting inch upon historical inch.

We hastily practice solitude,
    overcast angels in sheepskin jackets,
    limiting the rolling offenses
    unpaid to Sacred Support.

We are fainting angels,
    angels, cold and …