Wizard Wild

Voices in the head, play dead.
River, rib, rill, red.
Thunderbolts within the tread.
Gold, be made to lead.

Tornado, blue widening gyre.
Belladonna, byre.
Lyrics of the liquid lyre.
Orange funeral pyre.

Mandrake, when you start to shriek.
Canine, thy bad bane.
Feline, tremulous top teak.
Wading through green rain.

Paranoid, schizophrenia.
Thought-spark, white shirt hurt?
Lachrymose the languor law.
Arrowed, O black quirt.

Severance? Gone, thine own way.
Hell and Heaven, hay.
Doubt, dread, doom, dung disarray.
Away from me stay.

Coral reef, the legal brief.
Cases, caught a cold?
Cannabis, thy pressured kif.
Brown the grizzly bold.

Nanotechnological?
That means very small.
Mother Entropy, your call.
Sword, halve. Vine, vinall.

Tyrannosaur, how you roar!
Kill floor crimson gore!
Lava volcanic null door!
Wind up war before!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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August 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
A wildly associative, incantatory poem: its clipped rhymes and rapid-fire images create a spell-book energy that is both playful and menacing. The recurring sounds give the apparent chaos a strong, propulsive music, while the leaps from nature and myth to science and dread make it feel like a surreal mental storm.
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