Mothman
...anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now! dear gawd, fool, run!!'
for you are formidab...
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Categories:
vacillations, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery,
Form: Free verse
El Jaleo
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EL JALEO
school outing …
prep school day trip -
the Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston …
I round a corner inside,
a sunny courtyard to my left
ahead, an exquisite scalloped arch
sculpted co...
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Categories:
vacillations, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Mask of Tourmaline
...Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving w...
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Categories:
vacillations, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Original Mask of Alabaster
...A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frot...
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Categories:
vacillations, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet
The Mask of Alabaster
...Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows ...
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Categories:
vacillations, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet