Vertebrae Poems - Poems about Vertebrae

Born to Rage

...I woke with blood in my mouth
and no memory
of the scab that sealed the rasure.

I’m cat-spitting
dog-growling
peregrine-divebombing
rooster-flogging
badger-flipping
hornet-stinging
wolveri...

In Case it Comes Up: Kundalini is Covered by Health Insurance

...
I told the nurse
I swallowed a snake.
He charted: religious mania.

But I felt her—
three and a half turns 
sleeping 
just south of the back 
of my clavicle.

I called her Vera
then, 
f...

Suspicious Upper

...

     Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict 
     Pigs begged - please eat us
     Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast
     Mince never been seen since 

     Rolled in cracklin...

A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS

...A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS

Where did individuality go, all toeing the same line
As all seem to be reflections of a similar persuasion
A wilderness of mirrors, each shows the same face
And of disti...

Bars

...LC

I drop bars, that break bars, and start fights in dive bars
“Emotio est pons, amor est finis.” 
I am the spark between the medulla oblongata
and the thalamus. 
The protector of vertebrae,
...

She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance

...She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance,
By the overly polished theories that hang from your lips like cheap jewelry,
No—she feeds on rarer flesh, nourishment for the chosen soul,
She fea...

In my brain, a neon butterfly flickers hysterically

...In my brain, a neon butterfly flickers hysterically,
Drawing with antennae of light the map of an unknown city.
Its streets are pulsing veins, the buildings - vertebrae of crystal,
And in the squa...

if our eye be single

...Our third eye glistens, as we watch
bliss magnetism rise, notch by notch,
until each cell of feeble form 
imbibes these currents, cool and warm,
dancing on our spine’s vertebrae,
the tease divin...

Ashen Aqualung

...Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffoca...

Zen mode

...magnetised spine as a seamless whole
reviews purity of thirty three vertebrae 
each is a string on which bliss beats play
such dear soul is the way in which we pray...

Manipura chakra

...navel chakra appears centre stage 
perhaps it has something to say
it is best we let it have its way
lest fire god takes umbrage

meanwhile on our forehead
a quiet potent bliss mist ris...

Zen mode

...thirty three strings of our vertebrae 
reverberate with music of the spheres
a harp upon which Divine Mother plays
nectar flows upward through the medulla
settling finally in head ovoid at the Bi...

Mother plays the harp

...as bliss pheromones mingle
we feel our enlivened spine tingle
poised in stillness, our attention sharp
kundalini ascends upward, playing a harp

the harp we speak of has thirty three str...

Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to ...

Zipper

...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines,
the rattle of small vertebrae
and delicate teeth.

A woman learns to ride them, feels
the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail.

A man lifts tugging fingers,
...

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