Clinker Poems

Something Left Over

...It must have been made
and rejected
in times grinding gears –
a knobby irregularity,
a leftover of smelt and dross.

This is all there is
a gobbet of oven clinker,
but behind it I sense crack...

Lost Town

...The wind is in from lost town,
it is as thin as a knife edge.
Razor beaked gulls
twist their necks, rolling
in the gritty bluster.
Lost town sinks beneath
churning clouds,
its smokestacks
jus...

Many British thermal units later

...Many British thermal units* later

Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer, 
(a married heterosexual doofus, – 
whose alter egos 
named and highlighted courtesy 
Gallant and Goofus) attones
...

An Old Clinker Boat in Williamstown

...
There is a sadness at the sight 
of this wreck of a boat, 
beached on a brick pad,
paralyzed and deprived 
of riding the tides or being swung
on a mooring line by waves
and wind. It sits as a...

A Dying Winter

...
It was a harsh, hard going season.

“It’s a dying winter, lad,”
he said, crunching words around,
a gnawed pipe stem.
Briefly embers sought a place to disappear.
Cinder gray eyes, set deep
in...

Creaturely

...Rough hands upon her,
not near, there, or where,
nor the seashell tip of a fingering care
            or other
            lack-lustering lapping's
but the groundless clubfooted grasping
      ...

Take the Test

...The theme from Schindler's List
moves us to tears, or it should do.
Pity there’s not a genetic test for, 
cold indifference,
moral weakness, or self-justified evil.

Go on admit it, that SS uni...

Spring Vernal Equinox Arrives March 20th 2022

...Spring (vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2022 

at 11:33 AM in Northern Hemisphere
though meteorological conditions, I swear
in summer re: temperatures already mild
enough to go outside in yo...

Divertimento

...You pop my heart     so heavily    to the rhythm of
                  “like a prayer”from Madonna.
You flare the stars at night
                    gleaming towards darkside.
You flame the solar ...

Ramble Around the Foundry

...It’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day.
I’m ridiculous for lack of content,
All my plot holes are on display.
Am I doing OK? Am I having a day?
I can’t get a call back. I sat on a thumb tack.
...

Something Left Over

...It must have been made
and rejected,
in night’s grinding gears –
a knobby irregularity,
a leftover of smelt and dross.

This is all there is
a gobbet of oven clinker,
but behind it I sense cr...

Summers End

...SUMMER’S END

staying cool, in the pool,
where children are cruel,
on a very hot day—
Summer’s officially over.

from submarine fool,
fishy bubbling school,
plenipotentiary fuel—
a p...

A Prayer Between Light and Dark

...dear god or whatever
you can begin me now
begin me on a whiteboard
a blackboard
anything that can be erased

my cookie was baked with bad blood
begin me again
as if I were a fish
on an alien...

Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021

...Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
throughout Highland Manor, 
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness desce...

Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up

...Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up!

Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
all the other ones (that follow below)...
them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one.

...

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