Long Gila monster Poems

He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a beer
owner of his own head at last
thanks to whiskey tainted...

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Cowboys in the Badlands


The horses need be reined tightly
lest they show better judgment
and head back to the barn.  The
cowboys, driven by the dust cloud
of following hoof beats, were less smart.
A Gila monster smirks as...

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Screenpoem Pitch
by Odin Roark


Night
Empty wet ghost town street
Work lights spotted
Tumble weed shadows
Like vehement crusted webs
Gila monster stares vacant
Fat lady carries midget man to bed

Lions sleep
Elephants sway trunks
Phillip Glass sounds undulate

Horses prick ears
3 legged cat wails
Cat...

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I'm solitary, roaming 
The American southwest desert;
Heaving my bulky body -
Covered with bead-like scales 
Of black and yellow - 
Across hot sands and rocks
In search of prey.
I'm a nocturnal,
Cold-blooded lizard.
I flick out my forked poisonous...

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Buffalo skull on the desert,
White from the wind and the sun,
Sometimes I feel like that buffalo skull—
I really don’t need anyone.

Buffalo skull on the desert,
Spider makes a home in its head;
Sometimes I feel like that...

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If I could, I'd be a Gila Monster,
a desert lizard, living under rocks.
For then, I'd know nothing of winter snows,
and my greatest fear would be soaring hawks.

A venomous reptile with pink patterns,
no one would want...

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I walk, head down, careful footing as I 
study the terrain, the way the shadow
from the mountains cover the valley floor

the dry wash beds, marked with
wildlife tracks, deep and desiccated 
no monsoon to wash them...

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