Ruddy the rubric of the Rubicon,
Ochre marks a milestone in that crossing .
From march to March : scarlet, the river runs .
Ochre marks a milestone in that crossing .
From march to March : scarlet, the river runs .
*[ WSB ].
Lines
In honor
Of the divine,
The poetic line
Of the divine,
The poetic line
Finds harbor
By sum device
Of aesthetic twine
That hogties
Nous with design :
Sounds atavic time .
Din hovers,
Fills the divide,
Rounds pathetic rhyme .
*[ WSB ].
In All that Wires Us
I feel a veil sickening
Covering me tickle-ing,
Thousands of spiderlings
Striding the drafts of crouping .
Covering me tickle-ing,
Thousands of spiderlings
Striding the drafts of crouping .
The sick and the well :
The grouping .
Not moving ; but removed .
So tired .
Fatigue pats you lovingly,
Murmuring, “ There, there . ”
— “ Shhh . ”
No impetus at all, from all
That inpired prior
The virus .
*[ WSB ].
The World Is Not Flat
To wit : the earth is polar planated
With the equator inflated, a bit .
With the equator inflated, a bit .
No turtles that paddle distantly down;
No planets rattle around terra lown.
No dome with windows flung open to rain;
No storm god in blue scopes an icebound plain.
*[ WSB ].
This Is Why Stars Twinkle
Ever since being born Death has been there .
Never seen, however .
Never seen, however .
Ready, set :
To go
At a moments notice .
The air between the stars billows
Black, and swallows any shimmer .
*[ WSB ].
Eight Chapters and an Epilogue
Rocks are a library of history .
Microfossils in fissures,
Bubbles of bacteria :
Protozoans that came
Before the Cambrian .
Eukaryotic hammer of the gods
Cracking the carbon floodgate,
But in the record :
Death is no wider than a knife’s edge .
Microfossils in fissures,
Bubbles of bacteria :
Protozoans that came
Before the Cambrian .
Eukaryotic hammer of the gods
Cracking the carbon floodgate,
But in the record :
Death is no wider than a knife’s edge .
*[ WSB ].
Testes
Beans in a bag,
They constrict and they sag ;
Walk, and they wag .
They constrict and they sag ;
Walk, and they wag .
*[ WSB ].
Wrong, All the Time
The wrong thinker tinkers,
Wheel out of round . Twisting spokes
To straddle fences, rattling
With spinning plates downtown .
Wheel out of round . Twisting spokes
To straddle fences, rattling
With spinning plates downtown .
A tired juggler .
A spurting performance
Of ergs out of sync :
Misspoken symbols clash .
Back and forth futility
Crashes to the ground:
The stage indifferent .
*[ WSB ].
Might As Well Jump
Rudderless and bilging
: The bedraggled rats
Stagger from worn rigging
Into the ragged sea .
: The bedraggled rats
Stagger from worn rigging
Into the ragged sea .
*[ WSB ].
SCROTUS 6
S Supreme
C Court
R Reprobates
O of
T the
U United
S States
6 six of them .
C Court
R Reprobates
O of
T the
U United
S States
6 six of them .
“ The pruning of justice ™ ”
Occupation : Poet . 