Whispers
...The chitinous mechanics
of head, thorax, and abdomen,
clicking exoskeletons,
the chirring of dry whispers.
We admire the purposeful
simplicity of the heedless.
Houses crumble as evidence.
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Categories:
chitinous, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Consumption
...Dying with my duty done, my life’s ambition filled,
I hear and feel the rustling from that which I did build.
Arachni-matron-me, I feasted ‘pon the mate I killed –
Before creating (lovingly?) the ...
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Categories:
chitinous, birth, creation, death, family,
Form: Other
Rural Glimmers
...In the country we do not have city vison,
we have a phosphorus luster,
we have snails and worms
that turn over a silvered mulch.
The slow burn of a late dusk
kindles sun-setting shadows –
t...
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Categories:
chitinous, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Beetle Buds
...Slumbering woods bloom
under beetle plowed pulp.
Up above,
the canopy is bare,
and sheds only white zero’s.
Beetles hum beneath the rot,
detonate inaudible chitinous chimes,
troglodyte ton...
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Categories:
chitinous, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Evidence
...The chitinous mechanics
of head, thorax, and abdomen,
clicking exoskeletons,
the chirring dry whispers.
We admire the purposeful
simplicity of the heedless.
Houses crumble as evidence.
Tre...
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Categories:
chitinous, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
'n Anchor Roach Ment Inc
...day and night Blattaria of various shapes and sizes
scuttle with incandescent
after glow as flashing blur rises
to fill every quarter of mine cerebral core, when asleep pries
me lids awake w...
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Categories:
chitinous, baptism, betrayal, crazy, environment,
Form: Free verse
Hell
...Chitinous wings envelop me.
I can't breathe here,
The air sears my lungs.
I taste blood in the back of my throat.
The pain
is
exquisite....
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Categories:
chitinous, angst, betrayal, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Umbra Music
...The insect hymns
press gently on the inner ears.
They hide in the umbra,
great intricacies
of chitinous clicks
and timpanis
and tiny shockwave harmonies
grooving late
into the ferocious nig...
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Categories:
chitinous, insect, music, night, science,
Form: Free verse
Cockroach
...Across the white of table bread and yellow plated cheese
Upon the black fictitious grapes, it wheezes its disease
It crawls, its scrawny legs cluttering the revulsion's sight
Look at this nocturna...
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Categories:
chitinous, allegoryme, insect, me,
Form: Verse
The Impossible Journey
...Standing at this divergence
I reflect upon the route I have traversed
one that felt so modest
now is exceedingly knotty.
Covert thoughts, anew in my head,
propagated from the night?
Some dark n...
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Categories:
chitinous, confusion, love, social,
Form: Free verse