Parochial Poems

concienca

...
it …

is conscience …
running from us like a cold rill from
the highland slopes
every obstruction, a detour …
its source is constant
relativity the parochial string of its core
trembling -
...

Remembering the frantic little boy with strawberry blond hair who didn't say boo

...Remembering the frantic little boy with strawberry blond hair who didn't say boo

Nonverbal (though he could talk)
most of his responses
happened to be witnessed
as his characteristic
and court...

Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

...Impossible mission for systematization to be wrung out of entropy

Which lame excuse I exclaimed,
when my dear old mom asked
rather told me in her scolding voice
to tidy up my bedroom,
cuz this...

Country Pubs

...Bubbling babbling burbling banter from the bar..

Sup hush….memory lane trip...Proustian rush..pleasingly tickled. 

Plushly ebbed…spidery beer swirls webbed…lace whirls..grace dimpled dappled ja...

run to fun

...My daddy—he once told me
don’t ever play with nuns
they’ll hit you with their rulers
it won’t be any fun

I snuck out of that prison
and now I’m on the run

Once freed from that schoolhouse
...

The Sword of Islam

...
In the deserts of Arabia, Medina had many Hebrews
And Khaybar Oasis was full of farms run by Jews.
To this day Muslims shout Khaybar, defeating Jews hits a chord
Because Mohammed took both place...

GONZO STATION, Gulf of Oman, Northern Zone, 1980

...It had something to do with American hostages in Iran was all I knew.
Some political complication that required a showing of the flag.
But Iran had been our ally? I’d seen their sailors train at ou...

Flamboyant Swashes

...Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson,
could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand
could impress such lettering upon my cheek.
so I
severed the crescent-angel of my imagination,
dashed my dreamy curs...

Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top

...Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...

spry buck analogous to energizing bunny 
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.

Home on the range 
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and f...

Xenodochial

... Quote:
"Xenodochial (pronounced zeena-doh-key-ul) means to be hospitable. Making others feel at home is truly an art. When you can make your friends, family, and even strangers feel as if th...

Cows, Cattle, and Maverick

...A Texan rancher Samuel Maverick, 
Who never his calves and cattle branded, 
That caused to create the word maverick—
An eccentric rebel born of cow shed! 

Now, before the word breached its nati...

Bounteous Mass Media Mechanizations

...Bounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses 
linkedin selling (...

Harold the Hugh Hefner Carrot Top Buck

...Harold the Hugh Hefner carrot top buck

Ruled his hare'm 
nsync with trumpeting Donald Duck,
(loud enough to arouse Daisy),
the former cartoon character,
a pensive searing black kind Roebuck
h...

The Parliament of Freud

...The Parliament of Freud

In youth the infernal triad posture and prance
Like the kindergarten of the lower house;
Bit players on the eternal stage of life,
Pawns in the cosmic joust of evolution...

Astral Travelers

...Some astral jumpers land  inside their flying suits  
like skydiving parachutists, 
others are thrown naked into places 
where thoughts are fig leaves.

Then they shoot off like toothpaste from ...

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