Atomized Poems

one before dawn

...awake usual thoughts 
failures made imposed 
turn others sleep 
those like may also awake 
guilt not helping light 
rest night fears conflicts 
wars doubts known not 
all prepositioned 
keep ...

Fantastic, Not Plastic

...I feel so vitalized, stylized, unanalyzed.

Eclectic, electric, not hectic!

My cells are atomized, crystalized, uncompromised.

Eccentric, ecstatic, not skeptic!

My mind's been mesmerized, ...

Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004

...Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz ...

The Needed Contradiction, Part II

......I think the counterbalance is
our craving for community,
and not the local government,
no, the things we enter freely.
I’m talking about your neighbors,
your churches and your civic clubs,
t...

The Needed Contradiction, Part I

...I see a contradiction that
grows clearer with each passing day,
once I think we all one know,
once saw as just part of the game,
a dynamic state of tension
that we should hope is not resolved,
...

Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
ab...

Sekumpul Altruist

...The gate made me rush,
my destination was plunder.

I saw them jeopardizing themselves,
helping others.

Unselfish concern for other people,
in the face of scarcity, risky, 
without any rewar...

Iron Skillet

...The sky was an iron skillet
To heaven it crept and filled it
Swallowed the color from every eye
An iron skillet was the sky

The earth no glint of morning touched
Fields swept black, the horizo...

Herman Heard Me

...Herman heard me,
The howl of a nation.
Scourged! I was usurped,
And I was atomized!
Toivo came, a solemn tide 
He contrived the paradiddle 
That led to my autonomy. 
Toivo, the inexorable curr...

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matth...

Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004

...Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,...

Strength In Defeat

...fragments of shelter in ruins

          minute reminders of cover

                    relentless shelling of home


survival for the sake of despair

          invocation atomized into dus...

Social

...Humans are a social species, the men
in white coats, whom we have been
taught to trust, persuade us. Mr. President
mills about, run-of-the-mill
if you will, running the mill of the party,
the ga...

Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother ...

Daybreak

...RISE ...


breathless, calm ...

     I face the morn ... possibility

          mists crawl 'neath gangling willows

            dew drawn from the keening hem of twilight

          ...

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