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ALICE THROUGH THE WORMHOLE

...*For Tom Woody contest

Curiouser and curiouser thinks Alice.
Why must I always follow that rabbit?
Last time it didn’t work out well,
I must try to break the habit.

This time they’re on a sp...

Club Lions Kin

..."Curiouser and curiouser!", Alice proclaimed 
" eye two, am adore "

Seven ol' kin
on the strong arms 
of Seven strong more
Mercurius wings by to sing
" ... Welcome to the game, Ein ..."

Al...

Liaison

...
"Liaison"


All seeing,
one eye watching
isn’t blind

I close mine
then open them,
shut the mind

there’s a certain bad romance
in the all seeing 
just being, drags...

Moth Balls In Drawers

...LOST dreams slide insensibly toward madness of dreams -- you close your eyes shut your wooden windows to life ~~ your dilated eyes drowning in a violent ocean.

Mister, you forgot your hat but now ...

Teaching Preschool

...I sneeze, and everyone follows suit.
Curiouser and curiouser.
I laugh and half of them laugh.
Two of them pointedly laugh louder after the rest of us quit laughing.
There are always two in every ...

Turkish Poetry Translations I

...Turkish Poetry Translations I



Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
tha...

Attila Ilhan Translations

...Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as eve...

The Tender Weight of Her Sighs

...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch

The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found want...

Escaping Rhymed Detonation

...Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned rhymes
...

Do Not Listen, Part I

...To all known shades, O virtuous Hinds,
With peerless hunger of a sordid kind:
Cover your ears. Cover
Your spirit.

Do not
Put the watered pot beneath the sun, that neutral sun
That struggles n...

Paisley Embroidered Slumber

...She blithely dreams of flitting butterflies,
 essence of lemon-drop poetry and
 lighter-than-vapor argent cotton candy castles
 upon empurpled cloud embellishes,
meanwhilst wistfully ...

Conquered Sensibilities

...Indulge me, I am Calliope,
   igniting naked souls at heart
whilst poesy descends captive skies
    calling upon ecstatic harmonies
 whence day gives way to nature's
    bounteous prolific profu...

Banshee Poetry

...Banshee poetry stuck
in zoned out twilights,
pushing limit's buttons
  'midst emotional roller 
     coaster high tides,
saw Jesus before his
 proverbial crowning glory,
surmised lucid ...

Wading Weighting Waiting Room

...Wading Weighting Waiting Room

Wading in thoughts, weighting words, 
fearfully here in this waiting room.

There's a compact slightly cracked 
music player by itself on a shelf. 

Someo...

The Flame of Our Name

...Do come, my love, for I insist!
Within the darkest crevices of time, we fight, we cry, I die
As vision gives us knowledge, we descend farther into the grime
Curiouser and curiouser, we fall in dar...

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