Best Homunculus Poems

Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that moment inelastic life
Crashed back upon the dead
like a shadow tsunami
A curl of pale and bilious gas
Fumed from chimney nostrils
Solidified in...

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Torchfire and brimstone heaven then rained down her might
Inch by inch, from within, without;  she ascended
Into being, breathing ; bathed in an eerie light
Humming energy, cacophony crescended

Distorted features and the body contortions
Backward motions propelling her ever  forwards
Crying out the songs of her many...

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Homunculus

you thought it would stay in one place
adopt a contented pose
lounge languidly by the fire without complaint 
nor ask for more than could be given

little did you know this thing 
had a mind of its own
and was after all
you call your own

soon you were working...

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