Aim, Aeon
...Aim dead center, O aeon!
Era, this is now.
Ergo, O my stern scion;
Come to anyhow!
Looking-glasses are like wind.
Reality grinned.
Terror, tiger, tamarind!
Sacred til he sinned...
Gaunt t...
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Categories:
gambrel, baptism,
Form: Rhyme
Cone Calderas
...Shivering sullen, silent all the time.
Suffering, wisdom, alone and sublime.
Where, O my oracle, shall I begin?
Blanch, light of Sin, nickel, cadmium, tin.
Hollow are hearts in the hill-towns, an...
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Categories:
gambrel, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme
High Hells
...Drag along the prophet?
Oracle, break the grip.
Tools of iron and Tophet!
Let the heavens rip!
Flippered horrors on the crawl?
Subterranean tour.
High hells? Hand in overhaul.
Liquid has its...
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Categories:
gambrel, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Sundial
...Sundial
My passion is the silent weather vane
The gambrel brought such sorrow
Much I marveled this roughcast cairn
Eagerly I looked for the lintel
I have dreamed of the clocks
Eag...
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Categories:
gambrel, adventure, analogy, time,
Form: Free verse
The Haunted House
...Amid the glacial hills of central Maine
There stood forsaken, gray, an ancient farm,
Which always filled us with a vague alarm.
Atop the humpback ridge of a moraine,
Abandoned now, for centurie...
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Categories:
gambrel, horror, house, imagination, memory,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Cow Eyes
...one more day
just one more day
to kill your memory
and wash away the sin
I’ll use a bolt gun and straight
blade for the slaughter
a gambrel hook and clothes
line for the hanging
yo...
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Categories:
gambrel, memory,
Form: Free verse