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Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell

...He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popular...

The Last Dancing Girl

...Cowled Head,
             Wrapped feel,
              Skating on ice in the courtyard.
             No dancing is allowed.
             Fling your arms about!
             Make your garments flo...

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after p...

Language Rots

...Language rots
in memories,
thoughts,
but in dreams 
above all
do lips blow
cherry O's and ah's

rolling hilltops into
milky afterbirth atmosphere
that I tumble down
quite suddenly by ear,
...

Machinating the Manger Scene

...I dreamed once a future
with Mary and her long claws
suspended from a dragon body
captive and held by force field
hidden beneath a big cowled robe
saddened by a stainless steel trough
and a bab...

Theater of Utter Charm Part 2

...of terminally opinionated snake charmers
for art's sake of course
well what else could define our course of action
when the end of unknowing
is only a mouse click away
when we'd still rather qua...

Wayfare Manor

...In a peculiar puny town nestled in western Massachusetts,
There lives an enchanted mansion in the Wilbraham woods,
Hidden in the hills away from the eastern city's pollutants,
Where the creme de l...

I Had a Dream

...I had a dream

I dreamt, a tree a dead white tree 
from a grey stone plinth
cowled men of ancient time 
around its brittle boughs unbent
Together pointing as they chant
with fingers of long gr...

Burnt Verse: a Sailor's Tale

...“I fear these furtive brumous depths,” the aged sailor growled,
“‘Cause nestled ‘neath these noisome reefs creep creatures cursed and cowled.

They flounder thus and, seeped in brine, patrol the w...

Monastery

...A shadowed hood
Enshrouded eyes
Sackcloth enslaving
Cowled monk smile
Shuffling....

Sand Dunes

...She stared up, intently, watching the Peruvian skies pass composedly above. She was dazed and disorganised about the steps leading her hither. Her eyes descended upon her hands, hands that were dry a...

A Chinese Girl I Took To a Nunnery

...A Chinese girl I took to a nunnery

			I

I led her
Her silent leg-irons cutting into my shins
That day when the air stood still
Dry as the day perhaps on the hill
					when he spoke standing...

At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2

...PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met a Silhouette behind...

F*** Love, We'Re Crazy People

...(If I could spit venom, this paper would hiss.)

I cant sleep,
it's dark and i can feel your memory biting
my eyes are sore with the persistence of it
weeping, rasping, clawing, grasping at my s...

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