Long Tarred and feathered Poems

I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort 
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats 
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...

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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”

Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows itself well deep
to be turned and touched,
substantially labyrinth

The Open 
is lead  
further in, and...

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"Circadian"



In the garden
I planted for you,
somewhere in 
the unplundered
Territory of Hypothalamus,
I found a flower 
who’s name was
You Wouldn’t Know the Truth
“God Help Us”
cried the lost 
Praying Mantis,
“Hear this, the journey
towards Light 
incurs a deep dive...

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"I Can't Breathe I Am"



I can’t breathe
when you 
paint the words 
“Flow” 
on my throat
when the words 
are trapped 
and I am gagged

I can't breathe
when you're kneeling
in prayer 
on my neck 
singing a gentile 
white...

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my agent grew nervous
when he discovered
like the rising sun 
on a sea of shark fins
that one must gauge and become the gauge
what is it that heralds an improved model
claiming to have superior knowledge
my hospital masturbates...

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I was not hated
	because of that
and cannot understand
	how anyone was

I was not taught
	that I must fear
that others would hate me
	because of that

in simple days when I was young
	and I would play in bright sun
fields of...

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They sheared and washed until they uncovered clean rosy skin

‘That’s more like it now we don’t have to cope with the ultimate sin’

Being different was not acceptable but now the sheep shivered

And the flock had...

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it was that dull ache that kept her going

a longing for freedom whatever that meant

confined to the straight-jacket of her mind

she tore at the shackles until her heart bled

clots obstructed safe burden-less passage 

stenosed angry...

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Holy Love At Stake

Quiescent prayer reached the flames in half hearted conviction when
                      ...

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I drive through sultry green-leaved countryside;
so divorced from toxic urban suicide,

I notice a black and white hand-painted sign
emerging on my right side
of patriotic red resolution,

"STAND UP
FOR YOUR COUNTRY"

Which feels aimed against
tall and massive Black
Lives Mattering...

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Plucking the Poisonous Parrot

Antonia had been a happy go lucky flamingo until her wings cracked

Now cascades of monotonous voices extracted venomous bickering

The parrot she took on as a charity case to quell her sadness now...

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His name was Ed Goodwin, a handsome man with piercing steel blue eyes, known in the small town of Marianna Arkansas as the leading architect. If DNA flows through our veins from one generation to...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXV

IF ever I had a country with flaming flags flying on every lamp-post weather-cock and tree
And if ever I were by my highest degree qualification appointed the Director-General...

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5/25/22

Living in the nether
Couldn't keep it together
For a long time wore a fetter
Remaining tethered
Occasionally got tarred and feathered
To your expectations I lost interest if I'll ever measure
Eventually I read a letter
Took off my sweater
Then walked...

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Big Brother In My Pocket
By Rick Rucker

The cell phone I carry has the power,
To run my company, hour, by hour,

Its power is so robust,
It leaves my old computer in the dust,

Instead of having to phone...

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I think that I shall never see, a stranger bird with a pedigree 
Receiving his reward for shame and greed 
Then tared and feathered and tied to a tree  
Old Rip Schneider’s deeds of...

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Unbearable Beauty in Black

The light has fallen down the endless solid cliffs
                       ...

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Written By:  D. Collins 11/9/21


In my mind I have this picture of Ahmaud Arbery.
Being tarred, feathered, then hung from a tree.
Hunted like a runaway slave with dogs in pursuit.
Five-O treated the scene like "Good...

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I wish that I had choked and died
On those chocolate candy bars.
I wish my mom had tanned my hide
About those tempting cookie jars.

I wish that I'd been tarred and feathered
For the dinners that I skipped
Because...

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May mornings turned a blue iris white with the sight of petaled plates on your stubble.

By surprise they appeared as a dawn shadow, thick on a black jaw,
Smelling of Millionaires against your stout chin.

I blinked...

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like a miserable cockroach he wriggled
through wreckage in the sump of his life
bottle in hand and at delirious mouth
in a macabre rehearsal of final strides

what had once been a passionate waltz
had become a legless inebriated...

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Too long I limped along a lonely road, born into this Sahara desert of a life, 
parched and hungry, face weathered and gaunt.
A deaf, dumb, and blind man, drawn and quartered by her knife, ...

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Here I stand before you good people of Liberated France,
The Nazi’s have been beaten and it is time to dance.
But we have a job to do before the celebrations begin,
These woman that stand before you...

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A lonesome coyote howled deep in the wood
And a MOST unwise owl somehow misunderstood
Oh, alas and alack!
She rashly hooted back
(And she hooted as hard as she possibly could)

"Who the heck heeds my howl, for god's...

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As of right now I am closer to the moon than happiness.
My sunshine on a cloudy seized to exist.
So many shots at making things right but I always miss.
I wish you were my Mrs. instead...

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