Wrenched Poems

Cooking Up the Self

...
roots wrenched from the soil
tendrils ripped from trellis frames
I scour myself raw
clutching a fragile harvest
in my bare, cold, trembling hands

A knife slashes through
the bruises and bit...

If I were to,

...Lock ruby ridden doors for roach ridden floors bleed without grace 
Roused rounded wounds throughout nightly escapes
And gaping fields of endless escapades
And gaping seas my moses blade has wrenc...

The Writer

...Why we'd catered to the foundation of unpopular beliefs beyond what a romance like ours would follow beneath the calmness of people like us the fascinating wonder along the cities shoreline of gut wr...

Possibility

...I fantasized of a possibility we couldn't foresee,
a reality I would grasp between my dusted fingers
before it slipped away into the reaches of beaches,
in the shorelines' bays of an emotion that ...

PainKillers and Immunity

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{"Corrupted abandonment issues
 swathe me as a probable hazard, and I remain far from sane, I coat over my sentiments and violate the evidence so nonentity would find the remnants of my body, 
I ...

Divine Madness

...Salt cascaded across sharp jagged edges of obsidian glass,  forgotten but never in the past. Prominent and worn ,used and torn
 Once to plague your sin-laden body. twice more as an act of revenge. N...

Death flirts, Yet You are The only One to Bring me Back to Life

...{"My burial was about to commence, become a happening. My spirit was a necropolis already, everlasting. So what significance did it take for me to give it all up? 
My soul to be extracted from my bo...

The Healing Blade

...My mind invaided with overwhelming thoughts.
I don't care, I surrender my clean streak.
I climb up the stairs at a complete loss, 
And retrieve the blade that I often seek.

It hovers inches abo...

Musings on death

...what is born must die … 
this we know but do not accept
in as embrace with vibrant nonchalance ~
no, let us admit it fellow souls
we are in truth truly afraid

we have seen birds in...

Crow Fights The Raven

...Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon, 
                               the library, 
a mausoleum of forgotten epochs, 
                       loomed ominously. 
            Its silhouette, 
birth...

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4

Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgi...

Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation

...Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland 
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union...

The Eclipse of Sanity

...Howling winds flung me into the sea
waves lashed kelp ropes around me
my belligerence grew when I was seized
anger brewed the tighter they squeezed

With fists raised and teeth clenched
I resis...

Moments that count

...Moments that count, are those bliss drenched
Joy makes us feel complete
Both fear and desire, from heart wrenched
Our head’s laid at God’s feet

Rapturous and aglow
In tranquil stil...

Building Tension

...That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to death

I ...

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